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egg-shaped

adj
in the shape of an egg
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
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Adj. 1. egg-shaped - rounded like an egg
rounded - curving and somewhat round in shape rather than jagged; "low rounded hills"; "rounded shoulders"
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Translations

egg-shaped

[ˈegʃeɪpt] ADJen forma de huevo
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

egg-shaped

[ˈɛgˌʃeɪpt] adjovoidale
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References in classic literature ?
They have audaciously adjusted, in the name of "good taste," upon the wounds of gothic architecture, their miserable gewgaws of a day, their ribbons of marble, their pompons of metal, a veritable leprosy of egg-shaped ornaments, volutes, whorls, draperies, garlands, fringes, stone flames, bronze clouds, pudgy cupids, chubby- cheeked cherubim, which begin to devour the face of art in the oratory of Catherine de Medicis, and cause it to expire, two centuries later, tortured and grimacing, in the boudoir of the Dubarry.
Vast in bulk and stature, with a long white face, which, broadened at the base by a big double chin, appeared egg-shaped in the fringe of thin greyish whisker, the great personage seemed an expanding man.
Children and parents were treated to bunny- and egg-shaped cookies and a visit from Mr.
A standout was the small Oeuf, an egg-shaped bag covered with different skins.
The egg-shaped was observed in 20.67 % subjects (males 12% and females 8.67 %), heptagonal shape in 18.67 % (males 11.33 % and females 7.33 %), hexagonal shape in 16 % subjects (males 9.33 % and females 6.67 %), tetragonal shape in 12 % subjects (males 8.67 % and females 3.33 %), round shape in 9.33 % (males 7.33 % and 2 % females), irregular shape 8.67 % subjects (males 4 % and females 4.67 %) and oval shape in 1.33 % subjects (0.67 % in both males and females).
The new Kinder Joy looks similar from a distance but opens to reveal not a hollow chocolate egg but an egg-shaped plastic capsule.
Next week they will dispatch the first elegant egg-shaped self-sustainable smart house to the first client in Japan.
Bouncy is just a nickname locals give this being because sometimes he manifests himself as something egg-shaped - halfway between a spacehopper and a massive red balloon and, having no legs, he bounces along after his petrified victims.
First things first: Well played Wolves - the Championship front-runners didn't seem to have any complaints that the ball was egg-shaped.
ITALY With the slogan "Trees instead of tombstones!," Italian designers Raoul Bretzel and Anna Citelli have developed a funeral product called the Capsula Mundi, an egg-shaped shell, made entirely from organic materials.