Definition of "fan-shaped" [fan-shaped]

• Resembling a fan in shape or form; flabellate.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Cigar lovers can watch stogies being cut and rolled with a chaveta (a fan-shaped knife) and cortadora (cutter) at the third-generation Cuba Tobacco Cigar Co."
• "Condo's chipmunk-faced characters - marked by their bulbous cheeks, fan-shaped ears and toothy grins - all have some Warner Bros. to them; though the difference between "The Water Nymph" and "The Cracked Cardinal," both painted in 2004, is the difference between looking at a Rembrandt and a Velazquez."
• "She placed this affair on a silver patterned tray with a razor-thin, fan-shaped spatula."