Sentence examples for to oblong from inspiring English sources
noun
Something with an oblong shape.
The fruit is pyriform (pear-shaped) to oblong in shape and 5 25 cm (2 10 inches) in diameter.
The fruits are generally large, 4 8 kg (9 18 pounds) or more, and yellowish to orange in colour, and they vary from oblate to globular to oblong, though some varieties are very small or feature a white rind.
The plants produce alternating, ovate to oblong leaves toward the lower part of the stem, which is capped by a tall, one-sided cluster of pendulous, bell-shaped flowers, each of which may be up to 6.5 cm (2.5 inches) long.
The five or six, triangular to oblong corolla lobes were about 3.5 mm long.
Leaves ovate-oblong to oblong or orbicular to ellipsoid, 4 7 × 2 4 mm, base truncate.
Begonia griffithiana, occurring in Bhutan and India (Fig. 5), is characterized by lanceolate to oblong leaves with subcordate base.
A large, saclike, round-to-oblong sporangium is sunk into a pit on the inner surface of each leaf base, where a small, thin structure known as a ligule also occurs.
Add four limbs attached to the oblong to make an outline of the horse's body.
Capsules nodding, fruit body trigonous-ellipsoid, ca. 1.7 cm long, 0.3 cm thick (wings excluded), apex with persistent styles; abaxial wing trigonous to oblong-ovate, ca. 1.9 cm tall.
Inflorescences cymose, axillary, 0 1-branched, 1–3-flowered; peduncles 1–3 cm long, ca. 1.5 mm in diameter, glabrous; bracts 2, opposite, 4–5 × 2–3 mm, oblong to oblong-spathulate, margins entire, apices obtuse, outside and inside glabrous; pedicels 0 1-branchedong, ca. 1 3-floweredeter, glabrous.
It is characterized by large, deep and purple-red flowers and oblong-lanceolate to oblong-oblanceolate leaves with continuous and loose indumentums in the abaxial surface.
