shapedly

English

Etymology

From shaped +‎ -ly.

Adverb

shapedly (not comparable)

1. (in combination) In a shaped manner.
   • 1984, Okajimas Folia Anatomica Japonica, page 206:

     All of the branches entered the trigeminal cavity and spread fan-shapedly to supply the maxillary and mandibular cell groups and part of the ophthalmic cell group from their posterior side.

   • 1998 January 15, Masahiro Moriya, Pneumatic tire and vulcanization mold used for the manufacture thereof‎^[1], US Patent 6,202,725 B1:

     A pneumatic tire comprises a tread with a plurality of sipes, in which one of opposed wall faces of the sipe is a concave face arc-shapedly curved over a whole of the sipe in a depth direction thereof and the other wall face thereof is a convex face just fitted to the above concave face, and a curvature of each of the concave and convex faces is substantially constant over a full length in a longitudinal direction of the sipe.

   • 2002, Entomological Revue, page 220:

     The subcostal vein is very short, club-shapedly widened at the apex.

Related terms

• U-shapedly