ovoid

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Ovoid or fireplug shapes are commoner, but a secret of these clothes is that they look darlin' on almost everyone.

From Time Magazine Archive

With the Ovoid sitting exactly against the skull, man had but to will himself in any direction, at any livable height, and the action took place.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1930 by Bates, Harry

Ovoid, ovate or oval in a solid form.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa

Ovoid, -al, ō′void, -al, adj. oval: egg-shaped.—n. an egg-shaped body.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

Ovoid spike rush, 118Ox-eye daisy, 163Oyster-plant, 170 Paint brush, 167 Pa�le-a, Pa�let, the upper bract which with the floral glume incloses the flower in grasses.

From Seeds of Michigan Weeds Bulletin 260, Michigan State Agricultural College Experiment Station, Division of Botany, March, 1910 by Beal, W. J. (William James)