Oblong

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Deviating from a square, circular, or spherical form by being elongated in one direction.
  • adj. Having the shape of or resembling a rectangle or an ellipse.
  • adj. Botany Having a somewhat elongated form with approximately parallel sides: an oblong leaf.
  • n. An object or figure, such as a rectangle, with an elongated shape.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Describing something that is longer than it is wide.
  • adj. Roughly rectangular or ellipsoidal.
  • n. Something with an oblong shape.
  • n. A rectangle having length greater than width.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Having greater length than breadth, esp. when rectangular.
  • n. A rectangular figure longer than it is broad; hence, any figure longer than it is broad.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Elongated; having one principal axis considerably longer than the others.
  • n. A figure of which the length is greater than the breadth; specifically, in geometry, a rectangle whose length exceeds its breadth.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a plane figure that deviates from a square or circle due to elongation
  • adj. deviating from a square or circle or sphere by being elongated in one direction
  • adj. (of a leaf shape) having a somewhat elongated form with approximately parallel sides
  • Equivalent
    long    unsubdivided    simple   
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    elongate   
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    rectangular    cylindrical    conical    wooden    upper    jagged    hexagonal    shiny    octagonal    elliptical