egg-shaped

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"We discovered an egg-shaped cocoon closely surrounding the star," says Ohnaka, the lead author of a study reporting the observations published today in Astronomy & Astrophysics.

From Science Daily • Nov. 21, 2024

Squishmallows, says Skoosherz, a new toy made by Build-A-Bear Workshop is too similar to its own egg-shaped cushion animal characters.

From BBC • Feb. 12, 2024

And the magazine’s tour of the influencer Emma Chamberlain’s home feels eerily saturated with buzzy designs: the bulbous couch, the egg-shaped stone dining table, the wavy velvet chair.

From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2024

Through these mergers, spiral galaxies turn into elliptical galaxies, egg-shaped galaxies without the spiral arms, which leads to the growth of supermassive black holes.

From Salon • Nov. 21, 2023

An egg-shaped clearing beneath high pines rounded out a bend in a running stream.

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt