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Egg-shaped   /ɛg-ʃeɪpt/   Listen
Egg-shaped

adjective
1.
Rounded like an egg.  Synonyms: elliptic, elliptical, oval, oval-shaped, ovate, oviform, ovoid, prolate.






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"Egg-shaped" Quotes from Famous Books



... the twigs and shoots. It is composed internally of dried bamboo-leaves, grass, and vegetable fibres, outside which bamboo-sheaths are bound on with creepers and fibres of different kinds. The nest is more or less egg-shaped, with the longer diameter horizontal, some 7 inches or so in length and 5 inches in height, and with the entrance at one end, measuring some 3 inches in diameter. Four or five eggs are laid, elongated ovals, somewhat pointed towards the small end, pure ...
— The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 • Allan O. Hume

... illumination is made by lamps behind the narrow paper-paned doors, and by the paper-lanterns hanging outside,—one at every door. You look down the street between two lines of these lanterns,—lines converging far-off into one motionless bar of yellow light. Some of the lanterns are egg-shaped, some cylindrical; others four-sided or six-sided; and Japanese characters are beautifully written upon them. The street is very quiet,—silent as a display of cabinet-work in some great exhibition ...
— Kokoro - Japanese Inner Life Hints • Lafcadio Hearn

... in the North Pacific Ocean; Johnston Island and Sand Island are natural islands, which have been expanded by coral dredging; North Island (Akau) and East Island (Hikina) are manmade islands formed from coral dredging; the egg-shaped reef is 34 km in circumference; closed to the public; a former US nuclear weapons test site; site of Johnston Atoll Chemical Agent Disposal System ...
— The 2003 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency

... female carries, hanging at the bottom of her ovipositor, a queer bladder-like arrangement, an opaline capsule, the size of a large pea and roughly subdivided into a small number of egg-shaped vesicles. When the insect walks, the thing scrapes along the ground and becomes dirty with sticky grains of sand. The Grasshopper then makes a banquet off this fertilizing capsule, drains it slowly of its contents, and devours ...
— The Wonders of Instinct • J. H. Fabre



Words linked to "Egg-shaped" :   rounded, prolate



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