Ovoid or ellipsoidal branchlets or receptacles, single or in groups, occur at intervals along the sides of both stem and branches.
Some of these appendages look like little polyps and have mouths surrounded by crowns of tentacles; others are ovoid bodies without external openings, but with a central cavity connected with vessels leading to the arms.
Its shape is that of anovoid sac on a stalk, which it attaches between two segments of the ventral surface of its host.
The former are mouths, but the function of the ovoid bodies is not known.
The same may probably be said of the eagle variously displayed, which in one example, in the British Museum, occurs exceptionally upon an ovoid shield.
The wheel was sometimes employed by the Romans to form a simple pattern by means of a series of polished ovoid depressions; when these are placed close together, the effect somewhat resembles that of our modern facetted glass.
The design was often given by the juxtaposition of a number of ovoid depressions and furrows scooped in a perfunctory fashion by means of a lapidary's wheel of some size.
The entire fruit is a species of drupa, of an ovoid form, of the size of a peach, and furrowed longitudinally.
The small grains are not fragments broken from a greater mass; but they shew by their flattened ovoid shape, and their rounded outline, that this is their original state.
These threads are instinctively coiled into an ovoid nest round itself, called a cocoon, which serves as a defence against living enemies and changes of temperature.
Seed vessels about the size of a filbert, 5-sided, with 5 apartments each containing 5 ovoid seeds attached by separate seed stalks to the central axis of the ovary.
Fruit ovoid or pyriform, scarlet when fresh, orange-yellow when dry.
The fruit of the Malakabuyaw is ovoid and full of a mucilaginous pulp, aromatic and acid, the same as that of the Bael.
The accessory poison-gland, which is lanceolate or ovoid in shape, consists of a small, granular mass, the extremely narrow excretory duct of which opens at almost the same point as that of the alkaline gland.
It is ovoid in shape, all in one piece, with a long opening in one side, which is closed by a piece of sinew braid about 40 inches long.
It is an ovoid water-worn pebble of greenish gray quartzite, 31/2 inches long.
These weapons are generally very much like the specimen described, but vary somewhat in the shape and material of the balls, which are sometimes simply ovoid or spherical, and often made of single teeth of the walrus, instead of tusk ivory.
Usually the spherical form of the central capsule passes over into an ovoid or ellipsoidal one, the vertical axis which passes through the centre of the porochora being elongated.
Cone, ovoid and hemisphere; the two poles of the axis dissimilar.
This Cyrtoid skeleton is sometimes ovoidor conical, sometimes lentiform or helmet-shaped, sometimes polyhedral or almost spherical.
The ovoid that was the ship hung against them, lit by the hidden sun, a giant even at her distance but dwarfed by the balloon she towed.
The great ovoidswung clear in space, among a million cold stars.
Fruit ovoid or subglobose, crowned by the remnants of the persistent style, with a thin crustaceous outer coat, inclosing the thick enlarged mucilaginous placenta.
Winter-buds ovoid or oval, gradually narrowed to the acute apex, with closely imbricated dark chestnut-brown slightly puberulous scales.
Fruit a fleshy 1-seeded ovoid or globose drupe tipped with the remnants of the style; flesh thin and succulent; stone hard and bony.
Fruit a globose or ovoid dry drupe usually covered with waxy exudations; nut hard, thick-walled.
Spikelets in the rough, before severe rubbing, ovoid or oblong, flattened, 2 mm.
The ovoid egg is of enormous size, even when compared with the largest egg we are acquainted with.
Of the two eggs, one is of an ovoid form, having much the shape of a hen's egg; and the other is an ellipsoid.
Defn: A kind of turnip commonly with a large and long or ovoid yellowish root; a Swedish turnip.
In animals, the familiar type is that of a small, more or less ovoid head, with a delicate threadlike cilium, or tail.
Defn: The very large ovoid or roundish fruit of a cucurbitaceous plant (Citrullus vulgaris) of many varieties; also, the plant itself.
Wild leek , in America, a plant (Allium tricoccum) with a cluster of ovoid bulbs and large oblong elliptical leaves.
Disposed quincuncially on an ovoid receptacle, or phoranth, both are grouped (Fig.
To this period also have been referred the large ovoid jars made to contain drugs or confections, and decorated with bold scrolls of formal oak leaves enclosing spirited figures of men or animals, or heraldic devices.
In the pearly nautilus the ovoid visceral hump is completely encircled by the free flap of integument known as mantle-skirt (figs.
The beetles are ovoid in shape, with smooth contours, and the elytra fit over the edges of the abdomen so as to enclose a supply of air, available for use when the insect remains under water.
When ripe the fruit or "pod" is elliptical-ovoid in form, from 7 to 10 in.
Note about midway of the Paramoecium an ovoidbody with a smaller oval one attached to its side, the former being the macronucleus, the latter the micronucleus.
Note, in a cross-section, that there are smallovoid or cuboid cells at the bases of the large ectoderm cells.
The bright red ovoid berries are cathartic, the whole plant is acrid and poisonous, and the bark is used medicinally.
Laureola, spurge laurel, a small evergreen shrub with green flowers in the leaf axils towards the ends of the branches and ovoid black very poisonous berries, is found in England in copses and on hedge-banks in stiff soils.
Prevomerine teeth 5-5, on large ovoid elevations at level of posterior edges of small round choanae.
The testes in all adult males are granular, ovoid in shape, and greatly enlarged.
The ripe spores of Schizomycetes are spherical, ovoid or long-ovoid in shape and extremely minute (e.
At first all are globose; as they mature, the majority are ovoid or elliptic; some are fusiform, with regularly attenuated extremities.
The most usual form is either ovoid or regularly elliptic.
Later on this isolated protoplasm is gradually altered, separating into somewhat regular ovoid or fusiform granules, which have, to a certain extent, the appearance of spores in an ascus, but they seem to be incapable of germination.
In Dacrymyces deliquescens are found mingled amongst the spores immense numbers of small round or ovoid unilocular bodies, without appendages of any kind, which long puzzled mycologists.
The washer is formed of two ovoidglass flasks G G, mounted on a bronze piece, L, to which they are fixed by screw rings, l, of the same metal.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ovoid" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: ball; bulbous; ellipse; ellipsoidal; global; globular; oval; ovoid; ovule; spherical
