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

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

In shape they are spheroidal, ellipsoidal or discoidal; in structure they may be solid, hollow or more or less cavernous; whilst in size they vary from that of a walnut to masses weighing several tons.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" by Various