bowllike

Where they waited was bowllike, with the open side on the north adjoining the road.

He lifted the bowllike helmet and spoke into it.

A fat, bearded man helmeted in a bowllike morion leaned out to look down at Kleg.

And no doubt the bowllike shape of the region, with its archipelago of small mesas, gave it an impressive look as well.

The bowllike hills grew more densely crowded.

A band of pink appeared along the bowllike edge of the eastern horizon, and soon a rosy stripe grew up beneath it, pushing the optimistic pinkness higher in the sky.

Mountains framed a bowllike vale littered with shattered trees-nest lining for a thick javelin, adorned with jutting spines, whose contours Sara had first seen hurtling above her shaken home.

It spread over the right side of the display, as Roderick and his father were viewing it, in a bowllike concavity that included about a third of the total and extended a pseudopod to take in Sigma Draconis.

He was carefully positioned supine on the transparent surface of the platform by the antigrav beam, while the Masters took to the table's control console, a bowllike apparatus slightly larger than the xylonic scanner, its rim a series of pressure-sensitive activation pads.

Using a laser altimeter aboard the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft, a team of researchers has determined that although the Martian ice cap is about 10,000 feet thick, it sits in a bowllike depression that is about 16,000 feet below the average elevation at the equator.