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

Capillitium of slender tubules, forming a loose net-work; the nodules of lime small, white, very numerous, roundish or ellipsoidal, often confluent end to end.

From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by Morgan, A. P. (Andrew Price)