| 单词 | ovoid |
| 释义 | ovoid (once / 18101 pages) adjn Something that's shaped like an egg is an ovoid. If you want to impress your friends, call that sculpture in the park that looks like an oval an ovoid. Ovoid can also be used as an adjective that means "egg-shaped," as in the ovoid chocolates in a box of candy. Ovoid comes from the Latin word ovum, meaning "egg." The suffix -oid means "like." When you combine those, you can easily see how ovoid came to mean "egg-like." To correctly pronounce ovoid, accent the first syllable and give it the long o sound: "OH-void." WORD FAMILYovoid: ovoids USAGE EXAMPLESThe servers and the bartender at the ovoid bar yelled out a Japanese welcome. New York Times(Nov 08, 2016) She is big, beautiful, and pink, an ovoid vision with six dreadlocks that sway playfully as she hops back and forth. Slate(Aug 02, 2016) She was tall with frizzy hair, ovoid eyes, and a shy smile. The New Yorker(Jul 05, 2016) 1adj rounded like an egg Syn egg-shaped, elliptic, elliptical, oval, oval-shaped, ovate, oviform, prolate rounded curving and somewhat round in shape rather than jagged 2n an egg-shaped object Hyper solid a three-dimensional shape |
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