The female spikelet is ovoid acuminate and has four glumes. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
A section of lung was cut out, an ovoid energy-bank introduced. From Wordnik.com. [The Languages of Pao]
Then they were sliding horizontally into the centre of the ovoid. From Wordnik.com. [The Dreaming Void]
Bulb ovoid, or rather regularly pear-shaped, with a long tap-root. From Wordnik.com. [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference
Laid up on the beach, they looked like a mass of flat ovoid stones. From Wordnik.com. [Sonoma Coast] Reference
The paunch had grown sizably ovoid and it strained his shirt buttons. From Wordnik.com. [Blood Test]
All morning long the tiny ovoid remained in place, watching, listening. From Wordnik.com. [Anything You Can Do ...] Reference
Vegetative cells cylindric (rodlets), ellipsoid or ovoid, and straight. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
The small, brown, ovoid seeds retain their viability about three years. From Wordnik.com. [Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses] Reference
Grain is ovoid or oblong, compressed, free within the glume and its palea. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
Nazu pointed to the ovoid and showed his willingness to help the strangers. From Wordnik.com. [Creatures of Vibration] Reference
Through the floor port he saw Nazu's tiny ovoid scudding over the treetops. From Wordnik.com. [Creatures of Vibration] Reference
There were no visible portholes or openings anywhere along its ovoid sides. From Wordnik.com. [Star Born] Reference
And the ovoid shape was reminiscent of the even more ancient spindizzy design. From Wordnik.com. [The Lani People] Reference
Mingling with the barbarians unsuspected, he might get possession of the ovoid. From Wordnik.com. [Creatures of Vibration] Reference
The fruits are small, brown, ovoid, smooth and with three clearly defined angles. From Wordnik.com. [Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses] Reference
The ovoid drifted away from the vessel and dropped toward the forest beneath them. From Wordnik.com. [Creatures of Vibration] Reference
Her beard was not so thick as quite to obscure her delicate ovoid of cheek and chin. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Stories]
Bulb of medium size, ovoid, very smooth and symmetrical; neck very short, or wanting. From Wordnik.com. [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference
The damaged ovoid careened violently and then fell end over end, crashing in the forest. From Wordnik.com. [Creatures of Vibration] Reference
Tubers somewhat ovoid, or egg-shaped, often grooved, or furrowed, and of extraordinary size. From Wordnik.com. [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference
Her bedroom bounded all over the ovoid house to link up with various other specialist rooms. From Wordnik.com. [The Dreaming Void]
The robot itself was a small ovoid shape with six tentacles ending in various gripping tools. From Wordnik.com. [Perihilion]
The Deodar is not so large as Smithia, and is known by its tabular branches and ovoid erect cones. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
He passed out of their field of vision for a moment, and then they saw him at the circular door of the ovoid. From Wordnik.com. [Creatures of Vibration] Reference
It was so small, that ovoid, and so inconspicuous, that no one, even looking directly at it, would have noticed it. From Wordnik.com. [Anything You Can Do ...] Reference
The overall shape of the husk around the nut ranged from globose (Fig. 5a) to ovoid (Fig. 5b) to obovate (Fig. 5c). From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953] Reference
In the human spermatozoon the head is ovoid, appearing pear-shaped or pointed in one view and elliptical in another. From Wordnik.com. [The Biology, Physiology and Sociology of Reproduction Also Sexual Hygiene with Special Reference to the Male] Reference
The roots vary greatly in form; some being round or ovoid, some turbinate, and others fusiform, or long, slender, and tapering. From Wordnik.com. [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference
When he began walking slowly down the street, the little ovoid moved, turning slowly on its stalk to keep that dark hole pointed steadily. From Wordnik.com. [Anything You Can Do ...] Reference
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