Word Meanings - WEDGESHAPED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Broad and truncate at the summit, and tapering down to the base; as, a wedge-shaped leaf.

• WEDGEGAUGEWEDGEGAGE
  A wedge with a graduated edge, to measure the width of a space into which it is thrust.
• Broadleaf
  A tree (Terminalia latifolia) of Jamaica, the wood of which is used for boards, scantling, shingles, etc; -- sometimes called the almond tree, from the shape of its fruit.
• Truncate
  To cut off; to lop; to maim.
• WEDGEGEAR
  A friction gear wheel with wedge-shaped circumferential grooves. -- Wedge gearing.
• Broad-leaved
  Alt. of Broad-leafed
• WEDGESHAPED
  Broad and truncate at the summit, and tapering down to the base; as, a wedge-shaped leaf.
• Broad-leafed
  Having broad, or relatively broad, leaves.
• WEDGESHELL
  Any one of numerous species of small marine bivalves belonging to Donax and allied genera in which the shell is wedge-shaped.
• Broadax Broadaxe
  An ancient military weapon; a battle-ax.
• Shapeless
  Destitute of shape or regular form; wanting symmetry of dimensions; misshapen; -- opposed to shapely.
• Wedgebill
  An Australian crested insessorial bird (Sphenostoma cristatum) having a wedge-shaped bill. Its color is dull brown, like the earth of the plains where it lives.
• WEDGETAILED
  Having a tail which has the middle pair of feathers longest, the rest successively and decidedly shorter, and all more or less attenuate; -- said of certain birds. See Illust. of Wood hoopoe, under Wood. Wedge-tailed eagle, an Australian eagle (Aquila a
• Broadbill
  A wild duck (Aythya, / Fuligula, marila), which appears in large numbers on the eastern coast of the United States, in autumn; -- called also bluebill, blackhead, raft duck, and scaup duck. See Scaup duck.

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