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- adjective Alternative spelling of
egg-shaped .
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Examples
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And look, if we're going to accept a mobile trash compactor falling in love with a flying eggshaped iPod, can we say it's silly to depict humankind returning to its home and putting it right?
F&SF and WALL-E 2008
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* Minicontainer with mini-plum tomatoes (like cherry but eggshaped: P) * Between containers: Sohan (that's an iraqi (?) sweet containing almond splinters, cashews or sesame seed glued together with some sort of honey caramel) * Minicontainer with bananas.
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Gwen Stefani appeared alien-like with her eggshaped updo.
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When the Great Mother conceived the ninelayered universe, she also dreamed into being the first temple, eggshaped like the cosmos.
One River Wade Davis 1996
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When the Great Mother conceived the ninelayered universe, she also dreamed into being the first temple, eggshaped like the cosmos.
One River Wade Davis 1996
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Each tapered column, covered with bronze plaques, ended in an eggshaped tip.
Time Scout Asprin, Robert 1995
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Still the view expanded, until we saw an eggshaped object in dead center of the window.
Crashlander Niven, Larry 1994
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Still the view expanded, until we saw an eggshaped object in dead center of the window.
Neutron Star Niven, Larry 1969
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Still the view expanded, until we saw an eggshaped object in dead center of the window.
Neutron Star Niven, Larry 1968
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The fruit is very handsome, eggshaped, of a beautiful apricot colour when ripe, and of a shining tempting appearance; the smell, however, betrays its poisonous nature: on opening one of the fruits you find it consists of a soft pulp filled with shining black seeds.
The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America Catharine Parr Strickland Traill 1850
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