pumpkin-shaped

1. 1.

   having the equatorial diameter greater than the polar diameter; being flattened at the poles

   Synonymsoblate

Questions about pumpkin-shaped

What does pumpkin-shaped mean?

pumpkin-shaped means "having the equatorial diameter greater than the polar diameter; being flattened at the poles".

How many syllables are in pumpkin-shaped?

pumpkin-shaped has 3 syllables and divides as pump-kin--shaped under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for pumpkin-shaped?

Close synonyms include oblate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pumpkin-shaped a common word?

pumpkin-shaped is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.