ovate

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Here, in an area about the size of a living room, is the only known habitat of a small, critically endangered invertebrate with a marbled spiral shell: the Chittenango ovate amber snail.

From New York Times • Sep. 13, 2022

A Chittenango ovate amber snail inspected a new leaf placed inside its terrarium in a lab.

From New York Times • Sep. 13, 2022

Every bit of ground was drenched in sunlight and steaming in the heat, except for the living room that harbored the only wild population of Chittenango ovate amber snails in the world.

From New York Times • Sep. 13, 2022

The morphology of the shell and the underlying animal can vary from circular to ovate.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

They brought the scent of the Sahara and Christmas, and yanked the slender, ovate leaves down from the frangipani and the needlelike leaves from the whistling pines, covering everything in a film of brown.

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie