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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ovular

Ovular \O"vu*lar\, a. (Biol.) Relating or belonging to an ovule; as, an ovular growth.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
ovular

1855, from ovule + -ar.

Wiktionary
ovular

a. Of or pertaining to an ovule

WordNet
ovular
  1. adj. being or of the nature of an ovule

  2. of or relating to an ovum

Usage examples of "ovular".

The head was long and sleek and ovular and from the way it turned alertly he could tell it was aware of him.

Enthralled, I allowed my lips to caress hers with slightly more pressure and a series of small, slow, ovular movements, which seemed as natural to me as breathing.

There were rounded plums and oval indeterminate fruit, some long and fluted like a banana, others ovular and end-swollen like a ripe alligator pear.

Not in absentia, as the remote guiding intelligence of a beetle but in person, in an ovular, tank-like suit the details of which would never come clear.

Blackberries were ripe, or ripening, and every wild rose bush had its smooth, red, ovular fruits.

Egg shaped, oh definitely, as ovular as any natural product of the hen, perched on its big end with the smaller high in the air above, squatting on three long curved legs that sprang out of the body and that could be returned in flight to cunningly artificed niches carved from the sides.

It was a squat, ovular plateau of sand rising some twenty meters above the desert floor.

And something else: A black ovular hole less than 20 meters above the ground and partially obscured by a vertical ridge.