ellipsoidal
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This is also sometimes called an ellipsoidal joint.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
We can see that the virions are spherical or ellipsoidal, with “crowns” of spikes on their surfaces.
From Scientific American • Jun. 25, 2020
The ellipsoidal shape, roughly 15 feet across and suspended from the ceiling, is composed of 230 chrome-plated aluminum rods poking out from a mirrored sphere, about a third of them tipped with electric lights.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 2018
If you make the particles elongated or ellipsoidal, they deform the air-water interface, which causes the particles to strongly attract one another.
From US News • Aug. 18, 2011
Key to the Species of Badhamia A. Spores ovoid or ellipsoidal a.
From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by MacBride, Thomas H. (Thomas Huston)
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
