Definition of "spoon-shaped" [spoon-shaped]

• Shaped like a spoon; spatulate; cochleariform.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "My glasses slipped down my nose as I used the pliers to depress a spoon-shaped metal lever of the trap, while I held down a corresponding lever on the other side of the foothold."
• "Patients hold a spoon-shaped antenna in their mouths to deliver a very low-intensity electromagnetic field in their bodies."
• "The music includes a gusli a hammered dulcimer with spoon-shaped sticks, and the performers sing weird, nonsense-ish rhymes."