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Having the form of the letter U; specif. (Phys. Geog.),

Under the usual shape or size; small; dwarfish. [Poetic] His dwarf, a vicious undershapen thing. Tennyson.

To deprive of shape, or of proper shape; to disorder; to confound; to derange. [R.] Shak.

Not shaped; shapeless; misshapen; deformed; ugly.

Having the shape of an urn; as, the urn-shaped capsules of some mosses.

Formed like a vase, or like a common flowerpot.

Having the shape of a wedge; cuneiform.

Shaped like a wheel.

Shaped like the lash of a whip; long, slender, round, and tapering; as, a whip-shaped root or stem.

Shaped like a worm; as, a worm-shaped root.

Shaped like or resembling a mite.

Acerose; needle-shaped.

Needle-shaped, having a sharp, rigid point, as the leaf of the pine.

Cup-shaped; saucer-shaped; acetabuliform.

The division of Cephalopoda in which the arms are furnished with cup-shaped suckers, as the cuttlefishes, squids, and octopus; the Dibranchiata. See Cephalopoda.

Shaped like a shallow; saucer-shaped; as, an acetabuliform calyx. Gray.

Needle-shaped; slender like a needle or bristle, as some leaves or crystals; also, having sharp points like needless. A*cic"u*lar*ly, adv.

Needle-shaped; acicular.

Shaped like a needle.

Scimeter-shaped; as, an acinaciform leaf.