heart-shaped

See also: heartshaped

English

Adjective

heart-shaped (not generally comparable, comparative more heart-shaped, superlative most heart-shaped)

  1. Having the traditional, notional shape of a heart (♥), that is pointed at one end and indented at the opposite side.
    Alternative form: heartshaped
    Synonyms: (of a leaf) cordate, cordiform
    Hypernyms: shaped, formed
    • 1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems:
      […] Passing, I leave thee lilac with heart-shaped leaves, / I leave thee there in the door-yard, blooming, returning with spring.

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