Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Shaped.like the lash of a whip.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Shaped like the lash of a whip; long, slender, round, and tapering.
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Examples
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It was a large flat fish at least four feet square, with a long whip-shaped tail, at the base of which were two barbed bones each about three and a half inches in length.
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If they have many short threads projecting, they are called ciliated; if only one long, whip-shaped process (or, more rarely, two or four), caudate (tailed) cells.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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Equestrian influences flow throughout the 14-piece "haute bijouterie" collection, which includes a whip-shaped diamond necklace and the horse-hoof-inspired rose gold and black jade Centaure necklace, says the paper.
StyleList Erin Donnelly 2010
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