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Elliptical Roman poet’s clipped style
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oviform
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Word definitions for oviform in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. rounded like an egg [syn: egg-shaped , elliptic , elliptical , oval , ovate , ovoid , prolate ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"egg-shaped," 1680s, from ovi- , comb. form of Latin ovus "egg" (see ovum ) + forma (see form (n.)).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. egg-shaped, having the shape of an egg.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Oviform \O"vi*form\ ([=o]"v[i^]*f[^o]rm), a. [Ovum + -form: cf. F. oviforme.] (Biol.) Having the form or figure of an egg; egg-shaped; as, an oviform leaf. Syn: ovoid, ovoidal.
Usage examples of oviform.
We passed along corridors with original watercolours every few yards, Doulton decorative moon flasks, oviform vases and figures on small pedestals.
Compared with the decorous impassivity of the oviform girl our flat-faced fashion-plates are terribly abandoned and provocative.
The champagne-bottle shoulders of the oviform girl have vanished from the modern fashion-plate and from modern life.