Usage examples (38)

• An egg is more or less a prolate spheroid, and the difference between it and a sphere is quite obvious visually.
• It looked like a sphere but on closer examination I saw it was really a spheroid
• 'The effect of graviational radiation on the secular stability of the Maclaurin spheroid', Astrophys.
• At the flat end of the spheroid was a small ring of a pink colour, from which ran lines forming the ribs, which supported the sides of the animal.