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Oviform

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Shaped like an egg; ovoid.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. egg-shaped, having the shape of an egg.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Having the form or figure of an egg; egg-shaped.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Egg-shaped; ovaliform.

Having the morphological character of an ovum.

Sheep-like; ovine.

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

adj. rounded like an egg

Word Usage

"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."

Equivalent

rounded

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

ovoid ovoidal egg-shaped