obovoid

American  

[ob-oh-void] / ɒbˈoʊ vɔɪd /

adjective

1. inversely ovoid; ovoid with the narrow end at the base, as certain fruits.

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obovoid British  

/ ɒbˈəʊvɔɪd /

adjective

1. (of a fruit or similar solid part) egg-shaped with the narrower end at the base Compare ovoid

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Etymology

Origin of obovoid

First recorded in 1810–20; ob- + ovoid

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Example Sentences

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obovoid

Flowers purple or white; achenes smooth, light brown, curved or straight, narrowly obovoid or oblong, slightly flattened, 2–3 mm. long, apex truncate, cup-shaped with a tubercle in the center.

From Seeds of Michigan Weeds Bulletin 260, Michigan State Agricultural College Experiment Station, Division of Botany, March, 1910 by W. J. (William James) Beal

Stipe short, erect, snow-white, longitudinally furrowed or plicate; the columella central, snow-white, various in shape, globose, obovoid, turbinate, and stipitate or sessile.

From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by A. P. (Andrew Price) Morgan

Calyx straw colored, obovoid, 2 mm. long besides the five spreading, membranaceous lobes, which are nearly as long.

From Seeds of Michigan Weeds Bulletin 260, Michigan State Agricultural College Experiment Station, Division of Botany, March, 1910 by W. J. (William James) Beal

Sporangia globose or obovoid, sessile, gregarious, closely crowded, or sometimes scattered, the wall thickened with minute scales, in color brownish-ochre or olivaceous.

From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by A. P. (Andrew Price) Morgan

Sporangium obovoid to turbinate, yellow or olive-yellow, stipitate; the wall rather firm, smooth and shining, breaking away about the apex, leaving the greater portion persistent.

From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by A. P. (Andrew Price) Morgan

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