cigar-shaped
Adjective Satellite
Meaning
tapering at each end
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Examples
Los Angeles-class USS in dry dock, showing cigar-shaped hull Modern submarines are cigar-shaped.
The cigar-shaped airship passed overhead and floated over the canyon.
On October 19, 2017, astronomers witnessed the first known interstellar asteroidbizarre, cigar-shaped rock that, just as quickly as it entered into our Solar System, exited in a hurry.
The eggs of Anopheles species are roughly cigar-shaped and have floats down their sides.
Star Wars creator George Lucas calls the cigar-shaped Separatist cruisers visible at the beginning of Revenge of the Sith "Star Destroyers" in the movie's DVD commentary track.
The major feature of the redesign was to replace the cigar-shaped secondary hull with a larger, triangle-shaped " delta wing " section.