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
If you make the particles elongated or ellipsoidal, they deform the air-water interface, which causes the particles to strongly attract one another.
From US News • Aug. 18, 2011
Spores thin-walled, ellipsoidal, violaceous, plicate-rugose, 14–16 x 11–12 �.
From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by MacBride, Thomas H. (Thomas Huston)
