ovoid

adj
/ˈoʊvɔɪd/US

Etymology

From Latin ōvum (“egg”) + -oid (“resembling”).

Definitions

  1. Shaped like an oval.

    • That was the way my mind lurched and stumbled, among the sharp rs and ts, sliding over the ovoid vowels as if on pebbles.
  2. Egg-shaped

    Egg-shaped; shaped like an oval, but more tapered at one end; ovate.

  3. Something that is oval in shape.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at ovoid. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at ovoid. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at ovoid

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA