Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Shaped like an egg.
  • noun Something that is shaped like an egg.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In anthropology, a cranium the norma verticalis of which has an ovoid form.
  • Egg-shaped: said of solids.
  • noun An egg-shaped body.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A solid resembling an egg in shape.
  • adjective Resembling an egg in shape; egg-shaped; ovate.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Shaped like an oval.
  • adjective Egg-shaped; shaped like an oval, but more tapered at one end; ovate.
  • noun Something that is oval in shape.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an egg-shaped object
  • adjective rounded like an egg

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Examples

  • In front of the oven is a tall counter that acts as a pass-through, and in front of that, on the floor, is an old freestanding TV, maybe from the early sixties with one of those ovoid screens.

    One For The Table: Capizzi One For The Table 2011

  • Big keys with an ovoid hollow at the top, the better to grasp on to and twist.

    How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011

  • Arp's painted-wood bas-relief "La Femme-amphore" (1929), in which a small figurative form, like a kernel, floats through the womb-like bowl of an amphora, speaks to Brancusi's curled-up ovoid "The Newborn (Version I)" (1920).

    The Shape of Things Lance Esplund 2011

  • In front of the oven is a tall counter that acts as a pass-through, and in front of that, on the floor, is an old freestanding TV, maybe from the early sixties with one of those ovoid screens.

    One For The Table: Capizzi One For The Table 2011

  • He pared his figurative forms—a torso, bird, kiss or head—down to essences, often in the form of ovoid, cubic or tubular masses.

    The Shape of Things Lance Esplund 2011

  • There was a cluster of white china in the ovoid fountain, which had been turned off, illuminated in arctic blue and lavender.

    All Aboard the RMS Guggenheim Kimberly Chou 2011

  • The resulting ovoid is about three or four feet wider than what can actually be accommodated in the lot, Mr. Byrne said.

    Byrne-ing Down the World Kimberly Chou 2011

  • I pictured her in a pale blue shell, tumbling in the ovoid enclosure, scratching wildly for an exit, only one set of claws to break free of it.

    The Bird House Kelly Simmons 2011

  • I pictured her in a pale blue shell, tumbling in the ovoid enclosure, scratching wildly for an exit, only one set of claws to break free of it.

    The Bird House Kelly Simmons 2011

  • The Hope Diamond is a very brilliant deep blue faceted ovoid diamond that measures 25.60 millimeters by 21.78 millimeters by 12.00 millimeters and weights 45.52 carats.

    Hope Iv | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009

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