oviform

ADJECTIVE
  1. rounded like an egg
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  • It is Mr. Roe's opinion that the defensive armour on the quarter jacks dates from the first half of the fifteenth century, the plain oviform breastplates and basinets, as well as the continuation of the tassets round the hips, being very characteristic features of this period. Vanishing England
  • It consisted of an oviform body to which were pivoted two upright slats carrying above the body nine long superposed flat blades spaced about one-third of their width apart. Flying Machines: Construction and Operation
  • The living organism is transparent to yellowish in colour, and oviform to elongated ellipsoid in front view, with a somewhat flat body.
  • Of flying insects, too, there are such as appear in houses, fields, and woods, which arise in like manner in summer, with no oviform matters sufficient to account for them; also such as devour meadows and lawns, and in some hot localities fill and infest the air; besides those that swim and fly unseen in filthy waters, wines becoming sour, and pestilential air. Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom
  • It is of a rough, knotty appearance, somewhat oviform, and when cooked is dry and sweet tasted. ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE
  • Similarly, if the world had some other figure with unequal radii, if, for instance, it were lentiform, or oviform, in every case we should have to admit space and void outside the moving body, because the whole body would not always occupy the same room. On the Heavens
  • Similarly, if the world had some other figure with unequal radii, if, for instance, it were lentiform, or oviform, in every case we should have to admit space and void outside the moving body, because the whole body would not always occupy the same room. On the Heavens
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