Synonyms:
egg-shaped, elliptic, elliptical, oval, oval-shaped, ovate, oviform, ovoid, prolate
Meaning: rounded like an egg
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
ellipse, oval
Meaning: a closed plane curve resulting from the intersection of a circular cone and a plane cutting completely through it; "the sums of the distances from the foci to any point on an ellipse is constant"
Usage examples
Suppose he tried an oval.
Her face was oval, with very large and dark eyes.
In the centre was a bright oval lit by shaded electric lights from above.
It is an oval of exquisite white muslin, a diaphanous abode wherein the mother must make a long stay to watch over the brood.
One most disheartening circumstance appeared, viz. that when he made the circuit oval his law of equable description of areas broke down.
The patch on the screen was not a round disk, as it would have been without the prism, but was an elongated oval and was coloured at its extremities.
The canoes were of red cedar, and flat-bottomed; the paddles had oval blades, to which short, quick strokes were given perpendicularly to the water entering and leaving.
The form should be slight, graceful, and delicately made, body long, tail rather short and thin, and the legs somewhat short, slender, and the feet oval, not so round as the ordinary English cat.
Louis Craven was now a tall man with narrow shoulders, a fine oval head and face, delicate features, and a nervous look of short sight, producing in appearance and manner a general impression of thin grace and of a courtesy which was apt to pass unaccountably into sarcasm.
Remember the magnificent oval guard-room, running into a vestibule at either end; the egg-chamber slung in the centre and isolated on every side by half a score of pillars; the front-hall expanding into a wide mouth and surmounted by a network of taut threads forming a trap.