ovoid in English

adjective
1
(of a solid or a three-dimensional surface) egg-shaped.
Three flowerpots rest on an ovoid surface, perhaps a ceramic tray or table top whose legs have vanished.
noun
1
an ovoid body or surface.
And the ovoids , too small to hold the molecules needed to carry out the chemical reactions of life, are just chance deposits with interesting shapes.

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1. ovoid, almond-shaped, markedly flattened from the side

2. Cobnuts are usually larger, longer, and more ovoid than wild hazelnuts

3. 2), while Avicularian chambers (marked as ‘a’) are smaller and flat ovoid-shaped.

4. The internal sac is an ovoid, tripartite organ that lies near the larval gut.

5. It is slightly ovoid in shape and is oriented "superior-to-posteroinferior.

6. Cuds can assume a wide variety of shapes including ovoid, crescentic, and irregular.

7. The Barkeep has a large ovoid head with a small aerial on top

8. Ball, spherical or ovoid object for throwing, hitting, or kicking in various sports and games

9. Concretions are often ovoid or spherical in shape, although irregular shapes also occur

10. Like native Bladderwort species, swollen Bladderwort uses ovoid traps, or “bladders,” on its

11. Medical definition of Bordet-Gengou bacillus: a small ovoid bacillus of the genus Bordetella (B

12. Bullace definition is - a European plum (Prunus domestica insititia) with small ovoid fruit in clusters.

13. 25 Rather than wandering around aimlessly, the ovoid twosome decided to visit a nearby castle to obtain directions.

14. The renal Corpuscle is an ovoid structure with physical dimensions of approximately 150 μm to 250 μm

15. Acorn definition, the typically ovoid fruit or nut of an oak, enclosed at the base by a cupule

16. Cobnuts are hazelnuts that are cultivated for consumption, sold fresh rather than dried; the nuts are usually larger – longer, more ovoid, than wild hazelnuts

17. The adjectives ovoidal and ovate mean having the characteristic of being an ovoid, and are often used as synonyms for "egg-shaped".

18. Larger objects distort into an ovoid, and are slightly compressed, which is what happens to the Earth's oceans under the action of the Moon.

19. The Aludels, known by alchemists as ‘eggs’ for their ovoid shape, always make her think of her womb, empty and waiting to be filled

20. On the average acorns of pedunculate oak are longer and wider and generally of a more cylindricals shape than the rather ovoid fruits of sessile oak.

21. The Caruncle (from Latin caro =flesh) is a soft, pink, ovoid body, about 5 mm high and 3 mm broad, situated in the lacus lacrimalis medial to the plica semilunaris

22. The cones are 8–40 mm long, globose or ovoid with four to 14 scales arranged in opposite decussate pairs; they are mature in 18–24 months from pollination.

23. Definition of Cushaw : a large round to ovoid squash that usually has mottled stripes and a curved neck and is a fruit of any of several cultivars of winter squash (Cucurbita argyrosperma synonym C

24. The single-cell organism has forms ranging from spherical to ovoid, and the color varies from grass green to dark green, although in water they may appear to be silver, teal, or even blackish.

25. Cola acuminata, an evergreen tree about 20 metres in height, has long, ovoid leaves pointed at both the ends with a leathery texture.The trees have cream flowers with purplish-brown striations, and star-shaped fruit.

26. Acorns occur solitarily or in pairs, exhibiting lengths of two to five centimeters; these fruits are variable in size and shape, but generally ovoid, turban-like with a shallow, thick cup of scales densely covered with yellowish hairs; the stalk is barely evident.

27. Briartite is a rare, inconspicuous, grey mineral with a dull metallic sheen. It occurs either as ovoid masses in tennantite, germanite, and renierite and as minute inclusions in sphalerite, or it forms a very fine intergrowth with tennantite and renierite, in sphalerite (Keller, 1977).

28. Bullace: 1 n small wild or half-domesticated Eurasian plum bearing small ovoid fruit in clusters Synonyms: Prunus insititia Types: Prunus domestica insititia , damson plum , damson plum tree plum tree long cultivated for its edible fruit Type of: plum , plum tree any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a