Y-shaped

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Y-shaped (not comparable) (possessional)

  1. Shaped like the capital letter "Y".
    An immunoglobulin is a large, Y-shaped protein.
    • 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921:
      The constellation Virgo is a Y-shaped group, of which α, the star at the foot, is the well-known Spica, a star of the first magnitude.

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