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spatulate

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spatulate [′spach·ə·lət]
(biology)
Shaped like a spoon.
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With two spatulate hands the handling-machine was digging out and flinging masses of clay into the pear-shaped receptacle above, while with another arm it periodically opened a door and removed rusty and black- ened clinkers from the middle part of the machine.
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They had been so long in contact with the earth that it had become absorbed into the very pores of his skin; but they were powerful hands, interesting, with long palms and spatulate fingers.
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You observe the spatulate finger-ends, Watson, which is common to both professions.
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