How To Use Ovoid In A Sentence
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The macronucleus is horseshoe-shaped or ovoid and is situated in the posterior half of the body.
Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901
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The resulting ovoid is about three or four feet wider than what can actually be accommodated in the lot, Mr. Byrne said.
Byrne-ing Down the World
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= -- Cones upon dwarf branches, erect or inclining upwards, ovoid to cylindrical, 1/2-3/4 of an inch long, purplish or reddish brown while growing, light brown at maturity, persistent for at least a year; scales thin, obtuse to truncate; edge entire, minutely toothed or erose; seeds small, winged.
Handbook of the Trees of New England
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According to Abbate and his team, the skull's long ovoid braincase, wide cheekbones, and massive browridge resemble African H. erectus and H. ergaster.
New Skull from Eritrea
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The kermes, a dwarf oak, a ridiculous tree which a man can jump over, surprises me by the wealth of its acorns, which are large, ovoidal growths, the cup being covered with scales.
Social Life in the Insect World
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Big keys with an ovoid hollow at the top, the better to grasp on to and twist.
How the End Begins
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Seeds ovoid or oblong, shiny, with apically a 2-fid to multifid caruncle.
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Most genera included in the family are steeply obconical to cylindrical, but a few are ovoid, at least as flattened.
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The grain is obovoid, truncate at the apex, and with a small white swelling in the centre at the apex, rugulose, red-brown.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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We met many indians carrying great ovoidal jars which were made at
In Indian Mexico (1908)
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He possibly held that the universe was slightly ovoid, with a crystalline outer shell to which the stars were attached.
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FRUITS: Pods short, to 2.5 cm, oblong to obovoid with a recurved style base.
Chapter 7
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It had aseptate hyphae and sporangia were papillate, both caducous and non-caducous, and their shape ranged from ovoid to elongate and distorted.
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The _fourth glume_ is ovoid-oblong, acute, coriaceous, rugulose, with short broadened stipes, and three faint nerves; _palea_ similar to the glume in texture and markings.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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Passing Bell is an eerie composition of fossil-gray verticals supporting gray, red and purple ovoids, punctuated with shocks of orange.
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There are two ovaries, one on each side of the uterus, and connected with it by the Fallopian tubes; they are ovoidal bodies about an inch in diameter, and furnish the
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand
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The crystalloids varied in shape, including elliptical, ovoid, rodlike, cylindrical, and occasionally rectangular forms.
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By sigmoidoscopy, a submucosal ovoid polypoid mass measuring about 2 cm in greatest dimension was identified at 4 cm above the anal verge.
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Which is to say, it looked like the ovoid deposit of a metallic dragon-bird, the hard-boiled cackleberry the Statue of Liberty was about to peel for her breakfast.
Skinny Legs and All
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That year I draw mazes whenever I can, square mazes, rectangular mazes, circular, triangular, trapezoidal, rhomboid, ovoid.
IAN AND THE STRIPY BATH PLUG
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Fruit oblong, or obovoid, the husk separating into four parts; nut smooth or angled, bony, incompletely two to four-celled.
The Pecan and its Culture
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And instant by instant the flood of varicolored flame that poured into its petalings down from the sapphire ovoids waxed and waned in crescendoes and diminuendoes of relucent harmonies — ecstatic, awesome.
The Metal Monster
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Three flowerpots rest on an ovoid surface, perhaps a ceramic tray or table top whose legs have vanished.
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Arp's painted-wood bas-relief "La Femme-amphore" (1929), in which a small figurative form, like a kernel, floats through the womb-like bowl of an amphora, speaks to Brancusi's curled-up ovoid "The Newborn (Version I)" (1920).
The Shape of Things
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Arp's painted-wood bas-relief "La Femme-amphore" (1929), in which a small figurative form, like a kernel, floats through the womb-like bowl of an amphora, speaks to Brancusi's curled-up ovoid "The Newborn (Version I)" (1920).
The Shape of Things
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Cones indehiscent, from 9 to 14 cm. long, short-pedunculate, ovoid-conical or subcylindrical; apophyses dull pale nut-brown, rugose, shrinking much in drying and exposing the seeds, prolonged and tapering to a more or less reflexed tip, the umbo inconspicuous; seeds large, wingless, the spermoderm entire.
The Genus Pinus
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Most cells were polygonal and mononuclear in form with ovoid nuclei, occasionally showing clefting.
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The smears were moderately cellular and included an admixture of the characteristic small ovoid blastemal elements and scattered spindled mesenchymal tumor cells.
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The old woman had closed her eyes, so Gretchen quickly hid her second frank behind an ovoid lamp.
SORT OF RICH
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Grain is minute, globose, obgloboid or obovoid, free in the glume and the palea.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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Unceremoniously, he hoisted her onto his shoulder, causing her to drop the eggs - she watched them, one by one, as they fell - perfect, pristine ovoids one instant, scattered spilth and ruin the next.
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His specific sculptural language can be reduced to four basic elements or motifs that appear as pure geometrical forms - the ovoid, the cube, the cylinder and the truncated pyramid.
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Seeds are extremely small, being less than 1 mm in size, with a wide variety of shapes (ellipsoid, oblongoid, ovoid, globose, trigonous or tetragonous).
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Magnetic resonance imaging showed a 2.5-cm, smoothly marginated, ovoid mass that did not have the signal characteristics typical for benign adenoma or myelolipoma.
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Grain is narrow, obovoid, biconvex, with two grooves on the anterior side and with a long embryo.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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There was a cluster of white china in the ovoid fountain, which had been turned off, illuminated in arctic blue and lavender.
All Aboard the RMS Guggenheim
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His specific sculptural language can be reduced to four basic elements or motifs that appear as pure geometrical forms - the ovoid, the cube, the cylinder and the truncated pyramid.
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They consisted of a closed smooth membrane and were round, ovoid, or irregular in shape.
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The capsule is ellipsoidal or ovoid in shape, with the size of about 156～194×250～325 nm.
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The most ancient churches in Wales have circular or ovoidal churchyards -- a form essentially Celtic -- and it may well be that these sacred spots were dedicated to religious purposes in pagan times, and were appropriated by the early Christians, -- not, perhaps, without opposition on the part of the adherents of the old faith -- and consecrated to the use of the Christian religion.
Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales
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They are large ovoidal masses of moss, lichen, and moss-roots, often tacked together a good deal outside with cotton-wool, down of different descriptions, and cobwebs.
The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1
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Ovoid vertebral bodies are seen in the thoracic spine with an associated thoracolumbar scoliosis.
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In this form of joint, an ovoid articular surface, or condyle, is received into an elliptical cavity in such a manner as to permit of flexion, extension, adduction, abduction, and circumduction, but no axial rotation.
III. Syndesmology. 3. Classification of Joints
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The shape was roughly ovoid, but the borders reveal areas of spiculation with extension to the pleural margin.
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The grain is obovoid, truncate at the apex, and with a small white swelling in the centre at the apex, rugulose, red-brown.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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The speaking/breathing trunk that protruded from the top of their ovoidal hairless skulls recoiled back against the edges of their flat-brimmed rain hats, and the secondary eating trunks that hung from the underside, or chin region, of their heads twitched nervously.
Drowning World
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It has a relatively large component of loess and contains ovoid inclusions of loessic silt which were deposited by solifluction.
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And the ovoids, too small to hold the molecules needed to carry out the chemical reactions of life, are just chance deposits with interesting shapes.
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By contrast, the Riesling turned out to be the perfect accompaniment for my main course: a thick slice of roast pork loin, with roast apples and parsnips, and a generous ovoid of buttery mashed potatoes.
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He observed that the planet presented a triform appearance, and that on each side of the central globe there were two objects, in close contact with it, which caused it to assume an ovoid shape.
The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'
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Puss teams up with Humpty Dumpty a creepily epicene ovoid voiced with eerie plaintiveness by Zach Galifianakis to repay an old debt by stealing some magic beans from Jack and Jill.
'Like Crazy': From Cupid's Blunders, Wonders
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An erect, herbaceous, dichotomously branched perennial, 60-180 cm high, with large, fleshy, cylindrical, obovoid subterranean rhizomes, large lanceolate leaves and white flowers arranged in twin clusters, which very rarely produce red seeds.
Chapter 10
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The rostral is low and ovoid, with a notch at its lateral edges for the passage of the ethmoid commissure and for articulation with the antorbitals.
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When you're not perplexed by the existence of the sonic obliterator, an ovoid about three feet high and two feet wide that somehow packs enough destructive might to sink an island, you'll be amazed by the abduction of a helicopter, then an armored car BY helicopter.
Screenhead
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Small ovoid and elliptical silver baskets were made in the neoclassical style to hold sugar as part of the tea service.
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According to recent investigations, molluscum epitheliale is to be regarded as a hyperplasia of the rete, the growth probably beginning in the hair-follicles; the so-called molluscum bodies -- peculiar, rounded or ovoidal, sharply-defined, fatty-looking bodies found in microscopical examination of the growth -- are to be viewed as a form of epithelial degeneration.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine
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He possibly held that the universe was slightly ovoid, with a crystalline outer shell to which the stars were attached.
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The coils sit on cotton reel spools that are placed on the plastic ribs that make up the ovoid shape.
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Lechea minor can be easily distinguished from that species by its stems more than 5 cm tall, ovate to elliptic leaves and ovoid capsules.
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He pared his figurative forms—a torso, bird, kiss or head—down to essences, often in the form of ovoid, cubic or tubular masses.
The Shape of Things
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Cones from 10 to 17 cm. long, short-pedunculate, ovoid-conic; apophyses lustrous brown-ochre or fuscous brown, elevated into thick, often reflexed, beaks with obtuse mutic umbos; seeds with large nuts and adnate striated dark gray or fuscous brown wings.
The Genus Pinus
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Spikelets are obovoid or lanceolate, 1 - to 2-flowered, persistent on their stalks, one to three in an involucel.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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The coronoid bone has been reduced to a small, ovoid element on the medial face of the dentary.
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The most emotionally moving and evocative rooms contain the ovoids - egg or face shaped sculptures which are quite overwhelming in their minimalist perfection.
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It had large, owlish eyes; ears that were capable of facing backward or forward; a wide, toothless mouth that seemed to split its flattened, ovoidal skull almost in half; and a small, constantly wiggling proboscis.
Lost And Found
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The _condyloid_ joint is formed by the fitting of the ovoid
Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools
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_Tréhala_ (fig. 2) consists of cocoons of an ovoid or globular form, about 3/4 of an inch in length; their inner surface is composed of a smooth, hard, dusky layer, external to which is a thick, rough, tuberculated coating of a greyish-white colour and earthy appearance.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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Their abdomens are variable in shape being triangular, round to ovoid to elongate, sometimes extending tail-like past the spinnerets.
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Flickers of reds, yellows and orange emerge from the depths, and the strange ovoid canvases reflect the surface while hovering over it.
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He possibly held that the universe was slightly ovoid, with a crystalline outer shell to which the stars were attached.
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Imagine a wide lanceolated blade of a vinous purple, some twenty inches in length, which is twisted at the base into an ovoid purse about the size of a hen's egg.
Social Life in the Insect World
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The ship made the transition from its rectangular cruising shape to the multibranched ovoid shape that was its battle mode, and it made the change swiftly and smoothly.
The Three-Minute Universe
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Apart from this, the composition is simple enough, all the ovoids being alike, and composed of a triplet, a septet and a duad.
Occult Chemistry Clairvoyant Observations on the Chemical Elements
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According to Bronn, the ideal fundamental form of the plant is an ovoid or strobiloid [312] body, for a plant reaches out in two directions in search of food -- towards the sun and towards the earth.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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Each of these three flat, ovoid shapes has a slit that runs from one edge to the center, where it divides into a pair of shapes like commas, leaving a rounded tab from which the piece is hung.
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I pictured her in a pale blue shell, tumbling in the ovoid enclosure, scratching wildly for an exit, only one set of claws to break free of it.
The Bird House
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The median gular plate is large, extending the length of the orbit; it is ovoid and bears the usual two small pit lines fused into a V. Behind it, the paired lateral gulars are slightly wider than the first branchiostegal rays.
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These inclusions appeared round in transverse and ovoid in longitudinal sections.
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An ovoid dripless teacup he designed in 1955 garnered what he claimed was "the first patent that had been issued for a teacup in a hundred years.
Career Produced an Elegant Design
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Grain is narrow, obovoid, biconvex, with two grooves on the anterior side and with a long embryo.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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Arp's painted-wood bas-relief "La Femme-amphore" (1929), in which a small figurative form, like a kernel, floats through the womb-like bowl of an amphora, speaks to Brancusi's curled-up ovoid "The Newborn (Version I)" (1920).
The Shape of Things
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Vought successfully tried its V-173 in the late 30′s-early 40′s with an ovoid planform and semi-articulated propellers.
Ekranoplan: world’s strangest airplane « raincoaster
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In four new paintings comprising his recent solo show, ribbons give way to a system of lines and ovoid shapes contained within large geometric fields of color.
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Typically they featured a background of pure, flat colour against which ovoid spots of strongly contrasting colour were arranged in patterns that seem random.
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The Hope Diamond is a very brilliant deep blue faceted ovoid diamond that measures 25.60 millimeters by 21.78 millimeters by 12.00 millimeters and weights 45.52 carats.
Hope Iv | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
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Rather than wandering around aimlessly, the ovoid twosome decided to visit a nearby castle to obtain directions.
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Their green rings, circular or ovoidal in form, abounded in all parts of the country, and it was in these circles they were said to dance through the livelong night.
Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales
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Basidiospores continuous or rarely septate, globose, obovoid, ellipsoidal to oblong, smooth or roughened, hyaline or colored, borne singly at the apex of sterigmata.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
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The opening at the blunt terminus of the glacier is a massive black ovoid, 25 feet tall and 40 feet across.
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He declares that on the same branch of oak he has noted the following variations: (1) In the length of the petiole, as one to three; (2) in the form of the leaf, being either elliptical or obovoid; (3) in the margin being entire, or notched, or even pinnatifid;
Darwinism (1889)
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A mathematical model for an ovoid spiral scanning system with airborne laser for underwater object detection is developed and a scheme for dot matrix uniformity optimization is proposed.
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The slightly ovoid shape fits nicely in your hand.
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The leaves are stalked, have a serrated outline, covered with stiff hair and their shape is ovoid and broad or bullate, hence the origin of species name (bullatus).
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The amygdaloid body is an ovoid gray nuclear mass, oriented transversely and with a slight posterior concavity.
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In front of the oven is a tall counter that acts as a pass-through, and in front of that, on the floor, is an old freestanding TV, maybe from the early sixties with one of those ovoid screens.
One For The Table: Capizzi
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Spikelets 1/20 to 1/6 inch long; grain obovoid; stamens 2; panicle narrow interrupted, 6 to 18 inches long 1.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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The Russian royal jeweller's name is now synonymous with ovoid objets d' art, as well as baubles and bibelots of mind-blowing beauty and breathtaking imagination.
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According to recent investigations, molluscum epitheliale is to be regarded as a hyperplasia of the rete, the growth probably beginning in the hair-follicles; the so-called molluscum bodies -- peculiar, rounded or ovoidal, sharply-defined, fatty-looking bodies found in microscopical examination of the growth -- are to be viewed as a form of epithelial degeneration.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine
