Pumpkin-shaped (Adjective)
Meaning
Having the equatorial diameter greater than the polar diameter; being flattened at the poles.
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- The pumpkin-shaped Earth bulges more at the equator due to its rotation, which is a key concept in geophysics.
- This unusual shape has an impact on how gravitational forces are experienced around a pumpkin-shaped planet like Earth.
- Jupiter, like other gas giants, exhibits a pumpkin-shaped structure that differs from that of the terrestrial planets.
- This spinning pumpkin-shaped sphere model helped in demonstrating why a body, rotating with considerable angular momentum, adopts a distinctively equatorial bulge.
- Planetary rotation combined with angular momentum has produced the observed pumpkin-shaped nature of a range of other gaseous bodies throughout our galaxy.