top-shaped

• “Its end was top-shaped, pointed like a dagger and with four razor-edged ribs on its sides.”

  Dwellers in the Mirage

• “He stepped outside to get a better look and saw a top-shaped craft with a row of dark squares and smaller openings across the midsection.”

  Simon & Schuster: Space Ships of the Visitors

• “Her garment was different too, a top-shaped, high-necked dress fitted with half a dozen big bulging pockets.”

  Ringworld

• “Fishes seemed to drift over the wave - wrinkled sand as though suspended in mid-air; while through six feet of clear water you could see rocks on which anemones lifted frail, coloured arms, and hermit crabs moved, dragging their top-shaped homes.”

  My Family and Other Animals

• “Cotton yarn is prepared from the native plant by means of a very primitive spindle, which consists of a small rod of wood at the end of which is a top-shaped piece of the same material which serves to sustain the necessary rotation.”

  The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir

• “+Cap+ bright orange or egg color, first convex, and then depressed, at length top-shaped and smooth.”

  Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners

• “Inside I could see a shimmering smoothness, round, higher than my head, a top-shaped object.”

  Valley of the Croen

• “His top-shaped head hung a little to one side, the thin hair was parted precisely over his high forehead and brushed in little ripples.”

  V. Book One: On Lovely Creek

• “The first step among them, and the whole colony was gone, with a rush of wings and feet that sent several of the top-shaped eggs rolling, and several of the young birds toppling over the cliff to the pounding waves and ledges far below.”

  Good Stories for Holidays

• “In the morning we found a female clinging to a shelf, dotting it with little top-shaped eggs.”

  Moths of the Limberlost

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