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- adjective Ovate, resembling an
egg or some aspect of one.
Etymologies
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Examples
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"Piero's Sky," a pastel from 1991-92, has a set of swirling egglike shapes that call to mind the birth of galaxies and the harmonies of Renaissance painting.
Too Restless for the Rules Richard B. Woodward 2011
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Sitting upright in a bowl-shaped indentation on top of the altar was a large egglike object the size of a football.
THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS MATTHEW REILLY 2010
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Sitting upright in a bowl-shaped indentation on top of the altar was a large egglike object the size of a football.
THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS MATTHEW REILLY 2010
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The stone is perfectly oval, egglike, a brilliant blue.
The Lady Matador’s Hotel Cristina García 2010
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He could see that the little egglike vessel had wedged one of its wing s in the crack.
Massage 2010
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Sitting upright in a bowl-shaped indentation on top of the altar was a large egglike object the size of a football.
THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS MATTHEW REILLY 2010
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Besides the two varieties he had already seen, there were tall, slender creatures of almost human form, but with blank, egglike heads absolutely devoid of features.
Tin 2010
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Last year Signorovitch also spied some egglike structures, and when she did genetic tests on her placozoans, she found evidence of sex as incontrovertible as a stain on a blue dress.
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But "the only strain that was making these egglike things died," says Yale biologist Ana Signorovitch.
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It was a small oval face, of a uniform transparent whiteness, with an egglike line of cheek and chin, a full but firm mouth, a delicate nostril, and a low perpendicular brow, surmounted by a rising arch of parting between smooth locks of pale reddish hair.
Adam Bede 2004
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