The Collaborative International Dictionary
egg-shaped \egg"-shaped`\, a. Resembling an egg in form; ovoid.
Syn: elliptic, elliptical, oval, ovate, oviform, ovoid, prolate.
Wiktionary
a. Having the shape of an egg.
WordNet
Usage examples of "egg-shaped".
I made charts and calculations, identifying novalike variables, Cepheids, cool and hot stars, egg-shaped doubles.
This native stuff had been carved and molded into a cradlelike, shallow depression, from which tilted columns arose to embrace the egg-shaped hull, two or three times as big as an ordinary ground car.
After four weeks, Orin's success at kicking big egg-shaped balls was way past anything he'd accomplished hitting little round ones.
The viewscreen blazed with rainbow light as a shining ovoid shape came plunging in along the vec-tor Speedwell had used, bremsstrahlung fire sleeting and sheeting away from it, dying back to leave only the fierce sheen of RV's light on what was now re-vealed as a great, sleek, egg-shaped hull.
The shot went over the maccaluca's flattened egg-shaped skull to split leaves and bring down a large cluster of aerial roots.
The cloud-covered iridescent ball of Opal, slightly egg-shaped and with its long axis pointing always to its sister world, loomed large.
Only the great pressure blocks seemed, and were, capable of resisting strain bracing the egg-shaped combustion chambers.
The bracts are large, egg-shaped and close to the flower, which is nearly as large as the Great Bindweed, and expands in the morning and in bright weather, closing before night.
Made of light metal, it was an egg-shaped chamber with pantograph arms and legs that had almost human abilities.
The cab was an egg-shaped bubble of light metals and plastics, painted with large red-and-white checkers, with a row of windows running all around it.
He could see the clustered grips for the spike-pods, featureless egg-shaped ovoids, that were the basic weapon for light vessels, a one-megaton bomb pumping an X-ray laser.
The English Horsemint (Mentha sylvestris) is a strong-scented plant, frequent in damp, waste ground, usually growing in masses, with downy, egg-shaped leaves tapering to a point, with finely toothed margins, their undersides very white with silky hairs.
The egg-shaped pod flattened till it looked more like a giant pumpkin seed.
Streamlined, egg-shaped, with quartz glass windows and duraluminum wings, with much of the available Ransdell-metal lining its diagonally down-thrust propulsion tubes, it stood glittering in the sunshine five hundred yards from the half-wrecked cylinder of the Ark.