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Meanings of ovoid in English
Rounded like an egg.
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Examples for "oval"
Examples for "oval"
1
In all birds they are oval; in all mammals they are round.
2
The shape is pyriform in 2, oval to roundish in the remainder.
3
The oval contains an internal grating that drifts from right to left.
4
The features were slightly aquiline; the head was oval and admirably poised.
5
Another moment and the chief dancer of the Potlatch entered the oval.
1
The scales smooth; praeanal pores none; pupil elliptical, erect; hinder limbs short.
2
Modern coasters use elliptical loops and reach a maximum g-force of 6g's.
3
And she waved the umbrella in an elliptical curve about her head.
4
If they used elliptical projections, navigators had to constantly recalculate their bearing.
5
There were the elliptical towers and turrets, the cube-shaped domes and battlements.
1
For all this elliptic talk that dazed my mind left obscurity everywhere.
2
They all had eight truck wheels under each, and elliptic steel springs.
3
They may be classed as triangular, lozenge, quadrilateral, star, circular, and elliptic.
4
The pedicels of the tentacles are flattened, or elliptic in section.
5
The circular and elliptic scan methods were developed to detect regularly shaped clusters.
1
Head ovate, rather compact; texture fine and tender; flavor mild and good.
2
Now, short side-shoots are produced, carrying large ovate leaves and bearing flowers.
3
A native species of small growth, with ovate-cordate leaves, and small white flowers.
4
The tail one-fourth the length of the body, covered with uniform ovate quadrangular scales.
5
A trailing-habited shrub, with prickly stems, ovate, spiny-toothed, evergreen leaves, and rather unattractive flowers.
1
He reached out to pat her egg-shaped buttock, then withdrew his hand.
2
When he was through, the egg-shaped stone had a flat oval top.
3
I pointed at the egg-shaped guy in the centre of the group.
4
He glanced down at the smooth, egg-shaped rocks he was kneeling on.
5
Make egg-shaped wells in the mixture with the back of a spoon.
1
A point outside the rim traces out a prolate cycloid, with a backward loop.
2
A few stars now had pierced the blue, and in the east there shone brightly a prolate moon.
3
This is consistent with a highly asymmetric molecule such as the prolate ellipsoid suggested by the other physical measurements.
4
Small-angle X-ray scattering analysis indicated that the enzyme had a prolate ellipsoidal structure with an ellipsoid cavity in the center.
5
By comparing several candidate space-filling polyhedra, we find that the oblate shapes are preferred over prolate shapes for all volume-to-surface ratios.
1
These canals terminate in the bladder, an oval-shaped reservoir for the urine.
2
You only want to use big plum tomatoes: the long-looking, oval-shaped ones.
3
The only thing alike about us, I thought, was our oval-shaped sunglasses.
4
Leaves composed of usually three oval-shaped leaflets, and unusually bright of tint.
5
Results: All breast hamartomas had an oval-shaped and a circumscribed margin.
Usage of ovoid in English
1
They were ovoid in shape and dotted the screen door in rows.
2
The ovoid had already started coming alive in response to Bin's touch.
3
Two hatches hinged open, and several dozen pale ovoid shapes were ejected.
4
The body during movement is globular or ovoid, without any anterior process.
5
An ovoid slice of the gemlike material slid aside, revealing a doorway.
6
Mingling with the barbarians unsuspected, he might get possession of the ovoid.
7
The skull of this fossil is a regular oval, or rather ovoid.
8
Bin grabbed up a heavy sack and rolled the gleaming ovoid inside.
9
First, the holes are generally nicely circular or ovoid, not obviously tooth-shaped.
10
The newcomer was slightly larger, with streamlined bulges in its ovoid fuselage.
11
The ovoid vessel had parted in three sections above its midline belt.
12
Not being a robot or cartoon sponge, my skull is reasonably ovoid.
13
Then, a few days later, the ovoid insignia was staring back at him.
14
All morning long the tiny ovoid remained in place, watching, listening.
15
The body is ovoid to globular and usually much flattened dorso-ventrally.
16
Transparent elevators traveled up and down, ovoid bubbles suspended around a central stem.
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