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[syn: egg-shaped, elliptic, elliptical, oval, oval-shaped, ovate, oviform, ovoid, prolate]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Ovoid \O"void\, Ovoidal \O*void"al\, a. [Ovum + -oid: cf. F.
ovo["i]de.]
Resembling an egg in shape; egg-shaped; ovate; as, an ovoidal
apple.
Syn: oviform.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Ovoid \O"void\, n.
A solid resembling an egg in shape.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
ovoid
adj 1: rounded like an egg [syn: egg-shaped, elliptic,
elliptical, oval, oval-shaped, ovate, oviform,
ovoid, prolate]
n 1: an egg-shaped object
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
32 Moby Thesaurus words for "ovoid":
bulblike, bulbous, egg-shaped, ellipse, ellipsoid, global, globate,
globe-shaped, globed, globelike, globoid, globose, globular,
hemispheric, obovate, obovoid, orb, orbed, orbic, orbicular,
orbiculate, orblike, orby, oval, ovate, oviform, ovule,
sphere-shaped, spherelike, spheric, spheriform, spheroid