ovoid

[US]/'əʊvɒɪd/
[UK]/'ovɔɪd/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. egg-shaped
n. an egg-shaped body

Phrases & Collocations

an ovoid shape

ovoid object

smooth ovoid surface

Example Sentences

Capsule long ellipsoid, ovoid-ellipsoid, or ovoid, septicidal, 4- or 5-valvate.

anthers ovoid-sagittate, ca. 1 mm, slightly furcate at base.

Nutlets oblong-ovoid, smooth, base small umbonate.

Ovary ovoid, usually 4-locular, with amphitropous ovules.

Anthers attached at corona lobelet sinus, ovoid, ca. 2 mm.

The shapes of neuronal cell bodies are spherical, ovoid , pyramial, fusiform, stellate or crescentic.

Fruit globose or ovoid berries or drupes with a crustose endocarp, apex ± covered by persistent calyx, often longitudinally orange punctate-lineate.

2. A small Eurasian ornamental tree(Prunus mahaleb) of the rose family, having white flowers and small, ovoid, black drupes with single seeds that are used in Middle Eastern cooking.

Real-world Examples

The skull of this fossil is a regular oval, or rather ovoid.

Source: The Journey to the Heart of the Earth

They generally only have one axis of symmetry, and by rotating an oval along this axis, the surface of revolution we create is called an " ovoid" .

Source: PBS Fun Science Popularization

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