Ovoid meaning

Adjective: ovoid

Pronunciation: (ow,voyd)

Ovoid meaning:  Having the shape of an egg or resembling an egg in shape.

Synonyms: egg-shaped, elliptical, oval, oval-shaped, oviform

Noun: ovoid

Ovoid meaning: An egg-shaped object

Quotations:  The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines • T. H. Pardo de Tavera – “It is the fruit, being indeed the only part known here. This is composed of 8 woody follicles arranged about a central column in the form of a star. These follicles open at maturity and reveal the seeds, which are shining, smooth, ovoid, hard, of a pretty chestnut-red color. In the Philippines they are sold even.

The Cosmic Computer • Henry Beam Piper – He looked around from one to another. The two supervisors, big ovoid things like the small round ones they had used in repairing the power reactors the first day, were circling aimlessly near the roof, one clockwise and the other counterclockwise, dodging obstructions and getting politely out of each other’s way. At lower altitude, a dozen.

Sample sentences:

1. The fruit of the mango tree  is rather larger than an apple, and of an ovoid shape. Some varieties are fleshy and luscious, and others tough and tasting of turpentine.The green fruit is pickled for market.
2. Those ovoid bodies may turn out to be eggs of some weird animals.
3. My father gave me an ovoid toy.
4. He gave me many ovoidal shaped fruits which were very tasty.
5. Is this world a ovoid or spherical in shape.
6. The large gray spiked form rising from the bottom of the picture is to me the symbol of death and ruin. And finally the black ovoid form is the symbol of fire, lava and destruction.
7. The bright red ovoid berries are damn good.
8. The chocolate is dark and ovoid with peanuts.
9. The shape can vary between cylindrical, ovoid and spherical.
10. The beetles are ovoid in shape, with smooth contours.