OVAL-SHAPED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does oval-shaped mean? 

• OVAL-SHAPED (adjective)
  The adjective OVAL-SHAPED has 1 sense:

1. rounded like an egg

  Familiarity information: OVAL-SHAPED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OVAL-SHAPED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Rounded like an egg

Synonyms:

egg-shaped; elliptic; elliptical; oval; oval-shaped; ovate; oviform; ovoid; prolate

Similar:

rounded (curving and somewhat round in shape rather than jagged)

 Context examples 

A measurement of the oval-shaped fat bodies, usually renal proximal tubular cells with lipid aggregates in the cytoplasm, in a biological specimen.

(Oval Fat Body Measurement, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A peripheral blood finding in which a large number of erythrocytes are shaped in a slightly oval-shaped form.

(Ovalocytosis, NCI Thesaurus)

A genus of enveloped, oval-shaped virions with surface filaments, in the family Poxviridae.

(Parapoxvirus, NCI Thesaurus)

The determination of the amount of oval-shaped fat bodies present in a sample.

(Oval Fat Body Measurement, NCI Thesaurus)

An oval-shaped bone of the tarsus found on the medial side of the foot.

(Navicular Bone, NCI Thesaurus)

A malignant tumor composed of uniform round to oval-shaped primitive nonlipogenic mesenchymal cells and a variable number of small, signet-ring lipoblasts in a prominent myxoid stroma with a characteristic branching vascular pattern.

(Myxoid Liposarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Adult bedbugs are brown, 1/4 to 3/8 inch long, and have a flat, oval-shaped body.

(Bedbugs, Environmental Protection Agency)

Instead, these moons have eccentric (slightly oval-shaped) orbits, which raise daily tides that flex the interior and stress the surface.

(Cracks in Pluto's moon could indicate it once had an underground ocean, NASA)