ovoid
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Ovoid or fireplug shapes are commoner, but a secret of these clothes is that they look darlin' on almost everyone.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ovoid, ovate or oval in a solid form.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa
Ovoid, -al, ō′void, -al, adj. oval: egg-shaped.—n. an egg-shaped body.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
Ovoid spike rush, 118Ox-eye daisy, 163Oyster-plant, 170 Paint brush, 167 Pa�le-a, Pa�let, the upper bract which with the floral glume incloses the flower in grasses.
From Seeds of Michigan Weeds Bulletin 260, Michigan State Agricultural College Experiment Station, Division of Botany, March, 1910 by Beal, W. J. (William James)
The following table shews the dimensions of both compared with those of an ostrich's egg:— Ovoid egg.
From The Romance of Natural History, Second Series by Gosse, Philip Henry
Vocabulary lists containing ovoid
Vocabulary Video Contest (2013) - List 2
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