Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Shaped like a helmet; in botany, galeate.

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

  • adjective Shaped like a helmet; galeate. See Illust. of galeate.

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

  • adjective having the convex shape of a helmet

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Examples

  • Some argue that her helmet-shaped haircut made her, others claim that she spent her later years devising her own mythology, but her work onscreen supports her legend.

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  • Speaking in London's modern helmet-shaped town hall on the banks of the Thames, Mr. Johnson, said that: "London has not been transformed overnight into a Conservative city" but he hoped to show "the Conservative party has changed into a party that can be trusted."

    U.K. Voters Deal a Blow 2008

  • Some argue that her helmet-shaped haircut made her, others claim that she spent her later years devising her own mythology, but her work onscreen supports her legend.

    My Twenty Favorite Actresses 2008

  • Traces of blue paint still marked the helmet-shaped headdress'the Battle Crown of an Egyptian pharaoh.

    The Curse of the Pharaohs Peters, Elizabeth, 1927- 1981

  • When exposed it still felt chilly; to warm his head he had put on his cap of office, the helmet-shaped kyrbasia.

    Funeral Games Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1981

  • [16] The following are the native names of the roots and plants seen by the writer: _ta-bó_, the seed of a plant which looks like a sweet potato; _sá-i_, a helmet-shaped seed of a tree of the same name;

    The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir John M. Garvan

  • Acropolis Museum, looking down over the city and to helmet-shaped

    In the Wilderness Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

  • The body was decorated with repousse work or engraved, and the shape gradually changed until the familiar helmet-shaped cream jug resulted.

    Chats on Household Curios 1900

  • Three of them wore white, helmet-shaped hats that made brilliant spots of light against the bank.

    In Exile and Other Stories Mary Hallock Foote 1892

  • In the cool of the dawn Miss Westonhaugh came tripping across the wet grass to where her uncle was giving his final directions about the furnishing of his howdah for the day; a lovely apparition of freshness in the gray morning, all dressed in dark blue, a light pith helmet-shaped hat pressing the rebellious white-gold hair almost out of sight.

    Mr. Isaacs 1881

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