Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Shaped like an egg; ovoid.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Sheep-like; ovine.
- Egg-shaped; ovaliform.
- Having the morphological character of an ovum.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Biol.) Having the form or figure of an egg; egg-shaped.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
egg -shaped , having the shape of an egg.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective rounded like an egg
Etymologies
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Examples
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Similarly, if the world had some other figure with unequal radii, if, for instance, it were lentiform, or oviform, in every case we should have to admit space and void outside the moving body, because the whole body would not always occupy the same room.
On the Heavens 2002
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It consisted of an oviform body to which were pivoted two upright slats carrying above the body nine long superposed flat blades spaced about one-third of their width apart.
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It is Mr. Roe's opinion that the defensive armour on the quarter jacks dates from the first half of the fifteenth century, the plain oviform breastplates and basinets, as well as the continuation of the tassets round the hips, being very characteristic features of this period.
Vanishing England 1892
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It consisted of an oviform body to which were pivoted two upright slats carrying above the body nine long superposed flat blades spaced about one-third of their width apart.
Flying Machines: construction and operation; a practical book which shows, in illustrations, working plans and text, how to build and navigate the modern airship Octave Chanute 1871
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It is of a rough, knotty appearance, somewhat oviform, and when cooked is dry and sweet tasted.
ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE 1841
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Of flying insects, too, there are such as appear in houses, fields, and woods, which arise in like manner in summer, with no oviform matters sufficient to account for them; also such as devour meadows and lawns, and in some hot localities fill and infest the air; besides those that swim and fly unseen in filthy waters, wines becoming sour, and pestilential air.
Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom Emanuel Swedenborg 1730
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