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Shaped like an oven.

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Usage examples (16)
  • The most remarkable thing connected with the history of this bird is his oven-shaped nest.
  • It was a low vaulted ceiling cut out of the live rock, almost oven-shaped, and hardly twelve feet high at the highest point.
  • The small, dark, oven-shaped room, smoky and foul with the smell of fish and dirt, was home to him -- the mud floor, worn smooth and hard with use, was strewn with mats...
  • Others build a massive oven-shaped structure of clay on a branch or other elevated site.
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