Explore Ovoid through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like rounded or prolate. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Ovoid meaning
- Shaped like an oval.
- Egg-shaped; shaped like an oval, but more tapered at one end; ovate.
Synonyms of Ovoid
Using Ovoid
- The main meaning on this page is: Shaped like an oval. | Egg-shaped; shaped like an oval, but more tapered at one end; ovate.
- Useful related words include: egg-shaped, rounded, prolate, oviform.
Context around Ovoid
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 7 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 12 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Ovoid
- In this selection, "ovoid" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, mottled, kilometer, somewhat, shaped, grille and area stand out and add context to how "ovoid" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 5 kilometer ovoid shaped granitic and are slender ovoid 3 8. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "ovoid" sits close to words such as aanand, abcd and abdurrahman, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with ovoid
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The fruit is about 1 cm long, oblong-ovoid with a slender, ridged beak. (14 words)
Mold spores are often spherical or ovoid single cells, but can be multicellular and variously shaped. (16 words)
The pollen cones are slender ovoid, 3–8 cm long, produced in late summer and shedding pollen in autumn. (19 words)
Gardner Although the late 16th-century engraving depicts the dome as having a hemispherical profile, the dome of Michelangelo's model is somewhat ovoid and the final product, as completed by Giacomo della Porta is more so. (37 words)
The larger natural satellites, being tidally locked, tend toward ovoid (egg-like) shapes: squat at their poles and with longer equatorial axes in the direction of their primaries (their planets) than in the direction of their motion. (37 words)
Wider mouldings include one with tongue-like or pointed leaf shapes, which are grooved and sometimes turned upward at the tip, and "egg and dart" moulding which alternates ovoid shapes with narrow pointy ones. (34 words)
Example sentences (12)
The wide, long S-Class body’s stately presence is emphasized up front by the ovoid grille topped by the distinctive star hood ornament, flanked by horizontal lighting with LED brows.
On the fossil, just below the tail, the butthole appears as a “blackish mottled ovoid area,” the paleontologists write (the image is on Page 4 of the PDF, ).
The property hosts at least 11 mineralized zones with kilometer-scale extensions, most of them surrounding or in the vicinity of a 15 kilometer by 5 kilometer ovoid-shaped granitic intrusion.
Car styling during the 1990s became gradually more round and ovoid, the third-generation Taurus and Mercury Sable being some of the more extreme examples.
Gardner Although the late 16th-century engraving depicts the dome as having a hemispherical profile, the dome of Michelangelo's model is somewhat ovoid and the final product, as completed by Giacomo della Porta is more so.
Mold spores are often spherical or ovoid single cells, but can be multicellular and variously shaped.
Rare-earth magnets Ovoid-shaped magnets (possibly Hematine ), one hanging from another main Rare earth ( lanthanoid ) elements have a partially occupied f electron shell (which can accommodate up to 14 electrons).
The fruit is about 1 cm long, oblong-ovoid with a slender, ridged beak.
The larger natural satellites, being tidally locked, tend toward ovoid (egg-like) shapes: squat at their poles and with longer equatorial axes in the direction of their primaries (their planets) than in the direction of their motion.
The pollen cones are slender ovoid, 3–8 cm long, produced in late summer and shedding pollen in autumn.
The wide array of traditional mathematical astronomy methods having failed him, Kepler set about trying to fit an ovoid orbit to the data.
Wider mouldings include one with tongue-like or pointed leaf shapes, which are grooved and sometimes turned upward at the tip, and "egg and dart" moulding which alternates ovoid shapes with narrow pointy ones.