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Wedge-shaped

adjective

(of a leaf shape) narrowly triangular, wider at the apex and tapering toward the base. Synonym: cuneate.

Shaped like a wedge. Synonyms: cuneal, cuneiform.

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... and coherent masses than is common in the State. This is particularly true of those living on the plains, who display in their encampments a military precision and regularity which are remarkable. Every village consists of a single row of wigwams, conical or wedge-shaped, generally made of tule, and just enough hollowed out within so that the inmates may sleep with the head higher than the feet, all in perfect alignment, and with a continuous awning of brushwood stretching along in front. In one end-wigwam lives the village captain; on the other the ...

— Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines • Lewis H. Morgan

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Words linked to "Wedge-shaped" : unsubdivided, cuneiform, simple, wedge, cuneate