Resembling an almond in shape, color, texture, or other qualities, often used to describe eyes shaped like almonds.
A compound of almond (from Arabic al-lawz through Greek amygdalē) plus the English suffix -like. Created through productive word formation to describe visual similarity without using metaphor.
Almond-shaped eyes have been celebrated across cultures for thousands of years—the fact that we needed a whole word for this shape shows how important beauty standards were in language development!
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