ovoid

from 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

from 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]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Ovoid \O"void\, n.
   A solid resembling an egg in shape.
   [1913 Webster]

from 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

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