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View synonyms for egg-shaped

egg-shaped

[ eg-sheypt ]

adjective

  1. having an oval form, usually with one end larger than the other.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of egg-shaped1

First recorded in 1760–70
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Example Sentences

Within those odd egg-shaped heads must have been a mind as alien to mine as an ant's mind.

The pulp is either white or red, and is full of little egg-shaped granulations.

Pileus: Egg-shaped in young specimens; at length more cylindrical, and finally expanded, melting away in inky fluid.

In a sheltered spot his egg-shaped teepees were ranged in circular form.

The fact that this egg-shaped concoction was no great timekeeper was a secondary matter.

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