egg-shaped
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But many denizens of his home state hated the painting, claiming that Wood was mocking them with his figures’ egg-shaped heads and sour expressions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
The Moon does not orbit the earth in a perfect circle but has more of an egg-shaped, elliptical orbit.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2025
"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
Such “diagrids” have been used in other tall buildings, including the 46-story Hearst Tower in New York City, the iconic 40-story ovular Gherkin skyscraper in London and a section of the egg-shaped London City Hall.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 27, 2024
It lives for five hundred triumphant years, and when it dies it constructs a sort of egg-shaped cocoon around itself.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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