ellipsoidal
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This is also sometimes called an ellipsoidal joint.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
We can see that the virions are spherical or ellipsoidal, with “crowns” of spikes on their surfaces.
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
Even if the clumped ellipsoidal particles reach the edge of the droplet, they do not pack as closely as round particles.
From US News • Aug. 18, 2011
Sporangium globose or rarely ellipsoidal, stipitate; the wall a thin membrane, with an external layer of minute granules of lime, rupturing irregularly.
From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by Morgan, A. P. (Andrew Price)
