oviform

o·vi·form

egg-shaped

Origin of oviform

ovi- and -form

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oviform

adjective

Shaped like an egg; ovoid.

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Adjective

(comparative more oviform, superlative most oviform)

egg-shaped, having the shape of an egg.

Origin

Latin ovum (egg) + -form

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oviform - Medical Definition

adj.

Shaped like an egg; ovoid.

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The moss-like covering of the "bedeguars" of the wild rose, the galls of a Cynipid, Rhodites rosae, represents leaves which have been developed with scarcely any parenchyma between their fibro-vascular bundles; and the " artichoke-galls " or " oak-strobile," produced by Aphilothrix L., which insect arrests the development of the acorn, consists of a cupule to which more or less modified leaf-scales are attached, with a peduncular, oviform, inner ga11.4 E.

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