oblong

How To Use oblong In A Sentence

• They may be square in shape like ravioli or in half-moon or oblong shapes.
• The fruit is a small oblong capsule with two valves containing many small seeds.
• Old colophons on school books sport two sorts of logo: oblong whorls, rococo scrolls - both in worn morocco.
• The _first glume_ is chartaceous, obovate-oblong, obtuse, many-nerved (thirteen or more), thinly ciliate with long hairs and with A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
• Corticospinal and corticobulbar fibers descend in large bundles at this level, destined for the pyramids of the medulla oblongata.
• Thallus of very minute inconspicuous and evanescent, brown-black granules; apothecia minute, 0.2 to 0.4 mm. in diameter, adnate, dark brown to black, scattered or clustered, plain with a thin concolorous exciple visible, to convex with the exciple finally covered; hypothecium dark brown; hymenium pale brown; asci clavate; paraphyses coherent-indistinct; spores oblong-ellipsoid, 9 to 15 mic. long and 5 to Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V
• -- A tree, with leaves bunched at the extremities of the branches, oblong, oval, acuminate, odd-pinnate, 3-4 pairs of opposite leaflets. The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines
• The latter includes the diencephalon; mesencephalon, or midbrain; pons; and medulla oblongata.
• The electroplate manufacturers in North America in the late nineteenth century favored various plain square, oblong, and low round baskets and taller ones on a foot, resembling a compote.
• One side of the painting is covered with energetic dabs of white and black over soft blue oblongs on a yellow ochre background.