Sentence examples for ovoid from inspiring English sources

With Easter fast approaching, ovoid food is all the rage and, being a slave to fashion, How to Eat could not pass up this opportunity to pay homage to, arguably, the greatest breakfast-slash-brunch dish... ever.

Crop scientists developed new, ovoid tomatoes that the machines found easier to handle.In Germany, Mr Martin and Mr Teitelbaum argue, the same phenomenon happened in reverse.

THE ovoid structure near Victoria station, to the north of Manchester city centre, is the most striking of the city's many modern glass buildings.

It is roughly ovoid in shape, with a land perimeter of 7 miles (11 km), and is situated on the north bank of the Liffey, about 2 miles (3 km) west of the city centre.

Thalamus, plural thalami, either of a pair of large, ovoid organs that form most of the lateral walls of the third ventricle of the brain.

It is an ovoid joint the male element of which could be described as a portion of a slightly deformed sphere.

Pivot joints are always of the ovoid class; from a functional aspect, they are the ovoid counterparts of hinge joints.

In several species the spores develop rapidly on the soil surface into ovoid-cylindrical gametophytes about 2 3 mm (0.08 0.12 inch) long, with green lobes and colourless bases; they usually contain a fungus.

The sculpture is an isolated, ovoid-shaped head executed in bronze, with details of the face drastically reduced so that the work has polished, pristine curves.

The metamorphosis of the globular cydippid larva into an adult is direct in ovoid-shaped adults and rather more prolonged in the members of flattened groups.

It is easy to forget that the forms on those posters Blu-tacked to our teenage bedrooms – the eggs and ovoids, the rocks that morph into flesh and back into rocks again – were all his own work: familiarity with them has bred contempt.