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Definition of Kidney-shaped
1. Adjective. (of a leaf or bean shape) resembling the shape of kidney.
Medical Definition of Kidney-shaped
1. Having the form or shape of a kidney; reniform; as, a kidney-shaped leaf. (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kidney-shaped
Literary usage of Kidney-shaped
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Botany; Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with Their Essential by James Edward Smith, James Sowerby (1810)
"Fronds kidney-shaped or orbicular, flat, entire, cartilaginous, nerveless, crimson.
... The round or kidney-shaped figure of the leaf, and its small size, ..."
2. The Indiana Weed Book by Willis Stanley Blatchley (1912)
"... oi- kidney-shaped; /, rounded or orbicular; g. spatulate or spoon-shaped; h,
oblong and obtuse; f, linear; j, lanceolate; k, 3-parted or 3-divided; ..."
3. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1901)
"... lobed, and kidney-shaped ; the flower large and white ; the fruit orange red,
equal in size to a bramble-berry, and of an agreeable flavour. it is a ..."
4. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1869)
"743), in kidney-shaped lumps enclosing a nucleus of galena, by the oxidation of
which it has been formed. The crystals of anglesite are ..."
5. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1843)
"... kidney-shaped fruit, which is a drupe ; an inverted embryo with a hooked beak.
There are two species of this genus known. W. serrata has serrate crenate ..."
6. The Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia: Commercial by Edward Balfour (1885)
"The regent granted him an escort, and the negro arrived and presented the stone.
It is like a darkish-yellow pebble, kidney-shaped and oblong, ..."
7. A Systematic Arrangement of British Plants by William Withering, William MacGillivray (1830)
"Anthers nearly kidney-shaped. Germen round, depressed. ... Stem erect ; root-leaves
kidney- shaped, cut ; those of the stem deeply divided into five or ..."
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