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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Shaped like a kidney.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having the form or shape of the human kidney; kidney-form; bean-shaped; in botany (when said of flat organs), having the outline of a longitudinal section through a kidney (see cut under kidney-shaped).

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having the form or shape of a kidney

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective botany, of leaves Shaped like a kidney, with the petiole attached at the notch.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective (of a leaf or bean shape) resembling the shape of kidney

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin rēnēs, kidneys + –form.]

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From Latin renes "kidneys", and -form.

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