Nautiform

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Shaped like the hull of a ship.

    "On the island of the Tiber towered the mast-like obelisk of the huge nautiform temple of Aesculapius, whose serpent there deposited, had stayed the plague in the fifth century of Rome."

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navicular

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"On the island of the Tiber towered the mast-like obelisk of the huge nautiform temple of Aesculapius, whose serpent there deposited, had stayed the plague in the fifth century of Rome."

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ναυτικός (nautikós) + -iform.

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