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• saucer shaped — Synonyms and related words: bell like, bell shaped, boat shaped, boatlike, bowl shaped, bowllike, campaniform, campanular, campanulate, cavelike, cavernous, concave, concaved, craterlike, cup shaped, cupped, cymbiform, dish shaped, dished,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• saucer-shaped — adjective having a concave shape like a saucer • Similar to: ↑concave …   Useful english dictionary

• saucer — noun /ˈsɔː.sə,ˈsɔ(ː).səɹ,ˈsɒ(ː).sər/ˈsɑ(ː).səɹ/ a) A small shallow dish to hold a cup and catch drips. The saucer shaped object could have been a UFO, but actually it was a balloon. b) An object round and gently curved (shaped like a saucer). See …   Wiktionary

• saucer — /ˈsɔsə / (say sawsuh) noun 1. a small, round, shallow dish to hold a cup. 2. any similar dish, plate, or the like. 3. any saucer shaped thing. 4. → flying saucer. {Middle English, from Old French saucier(e) vessel for holding sauce, from sauce… …  

• Flying saucer — is the name given to a type of unidentified flying object (UFO) with a disc or saucer shaped body, usually described as silver or metallic, occasionally reported as covered with running lights or surrounded with a glowing light, hovering or… …   Wikipedia

• Military disc-shaped aircraft — The development of military disc shaped aircraft apparently dates back to World War II. A number of disc shaped aircraft have been proposed over the years, a few being built. Contents 1 Nemeth Umbrella Plane 2 Sack AS.6 3 Vought Flying Flapjack …   Wikipedia

• Flying Saucer Aircraft (Book) — Infobox Book name = Flying Saucer Aircraft (Secret Projects) title orig = translator = image caption = author = Bill Rose Tony Buttler illustrator = cover artist = country = language = English series = subject = Aviation history genre = publisher …   Wikipedia

• flying saucer — noun Date: 1947 any of various unidentified flying objects usually described as being saucer shaped or disk shaped …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• funnel shaped — Synonyms and related words: boat shaped, boatlike, bowl shaped, bowllike, cavelike, cavernous, concave, concaved, cone shaped, coned, conelike, conic, craterlike, cup shaped, cupped, cymbiform, dish shaped, dished, dishing, dishlike, funnel… …   Moby Thesaurus

• flying saucer — ☆ flying saucer n. a UFO, orig. and typically saucer shaped, that is thought to be an alien spacecraft …   English World dictionary

• cup-and-saucer limpet — noun also cup and saucer Etymology: so called from the shape of the inverted shell, the inner shelf of which resembles a cup sitting on the saucer shaped outer shell : a mollusk of the family Calyptraeidae …   Useful english dictionary