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

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

For each human being possessed the tight-fitting metalized cloth, with the gleaming helmet in whose skull-pan was the Anti-Gravitational Ovoid, which was the "outside" garment of earthlings.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1930 by Bates, Harry

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