How To Use ovoid In A Sentence
- Their green rings, circular or ovoidal in form, abounded in all parts of the country, and it was in these circles they were said to dance through the livelong night. Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales
- According to Bronn, the ideal fundamental form of the plant is an ovoid or strobiloid [312] body, for a plant reaches out in two directions in search of food -- towards the sun and towards the earth. Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
- Apart from this, the composition is simple enough, all the ovoids being alike, and composed of a triplet, a septet and a duad. Occult Chemistry Clairvoyant Observations on the Chemical Elements
- The ship made the transition from its rectangular cruising shape to the multibranched ovoid shape that was its battle mode, and it made the change swiftly and smoothly. The Three-Minute Universe
- Imagine a wide lanceolated blade of a vinous purple, some twenty inches in length, which is twisted at the base into an ovoid purse about the size of a hen's egg. Social Life in the Insect World
- He possibly held that the universe was slightly ovoid, with a crystalline outer shell to which the stars were attached.
- Flickers of reds, yellows and orange emerge from the depths, and the strange ovoid canvases reflect the surface while hovering over it.
- Their abdomens are variable in shape being triangular, round to ovoid to elongate, sometimes extending tail-like past the spinnerets.
- _Tréhala_ (fig. 2) consists of cocoons of an ovoid or globular form, about 3/4 of an inch in length; their inner surface is composed of a smooth, hard, dusky layer, external to which is a thick, rough, tuberculated coating of a greyish-white colour and earthy appearance. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
- The _condyloid_ joint is formed by the fitting of the ovoid Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools
