ellipsoidal
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This is also sometimes called an ellipsoidal joint.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Under the electron microscope, SARS-CoV-2 virions look spherical or ellipsoidal.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 25, 2020
The ellipsoidal shape, roughly 15 feet across and suspended from the ceiling, is composed of 230 chrome-plated aluminum rods poking out from a mirrored sphere, about a third of them tipped with electric lights.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2018
If you make the particles elongated or ellipsoidal, they deform the air-water interface, which causes the particles to strongly attract one another.
From US News ● Aug. 18, 2011
Capillitium of slender tubules, forming a dense, persistent net-work of very small meshes, more or less expanded at the angles; the nodules of lime variable in size, numerous, white, roundish, ellipsoidal or obtusely angular.
From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by Morgan, A. P. (Andrew Price)
