ovoid
Speech parts
1. ovoid - Noun
2. ovoid - Adjective
3. ovoid - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Alt. of Ovoidal
A solid resembling an egg in shape.
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The large gray spiked form rising from the bottom of the picture is to me the symbol of death and ruin. And finally the black ovoid form is the symbol of fire, lava and destruction.
Car styling during the 1990s became gradually more round and ovoid, the third-generation Taurus and Mercury Sable being some of the more extreme examples.
Gardner Although the late 16th-century engraving depicts the dome as having a hemispherical profile, the dome of Michelangelo's model is somewhat ovoid and the final product, as completed by Giacomo della Porta is more so.
The larger natural satellites, being tidally locked, tend toward ovoid (egg-like) shapes: squat at their poles and with longer equatorial axes in the direction of their primaries (their planets) than in the direction of their motion.
Mold spores are often spherical or ovoid single cells, but can be multicellular and variously shaped.
The most widely cultivated varieties ( cultivars ) in Europe and North America today are elongated ovoid, 12–25 cm long ( 4 1 2 to 9 in) and 6–9 cm broad (2 to 4 in) in a dark purple skin.