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In the 2015 video installation The Slave Ship (The Law of the Sea), the film unfolds in an ovoid frame.—Emmanuel Iduma, ARTnews.com, 4 May 2026 The table revealed that an ovoid body—blunt nose, tapering tail—came closer to aerodynamic perfection than anything else a designer could draw.—Bill Gourgey, Popular Science, 29 Apr. 2026 And the curled posture of the embryo follows an ovoid shape like that of an egg.—Kate Wong, Scientific American, 15 Apr. 2026 Mellerio also stepped into the watch space, with the 2023 introduction of the M Cut ovoid design, and launched a perfume.—Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 14 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for ovoid
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Etymology
French ovoïde, from Latin ovum egg — more at egg entry 1