"Ovoid" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... ball; give rotundity &c n.; round. Adj. rotund; round &c (circular) 247; cylindric, cylindrical, cylindroid^; columnar, lumbriciform^; conic, conical; spherical, spheroidal; globular, globated^, globous^, globose; egg shaped, bell shaped, pear shaped; ovoid, oviform; gibbous; rixiform^; campaniform^, campanulate^, campaniliform^; fungiform^, bead-like, moniliform^, pyriform^, bulbous; tres atque rotundus [Lat.]; round as an orange, round as an apple, round as a ball, round as a billiard ball, round ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... clang of the manhole cover as it swung home, and was bolted to its seat. The ovoid drifted away from the vessel and dropped toward the forest beneath them. Nazu had gone ...
— Creatures of Vibration • Harl Vincent |
