"Ovoidal" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... level piece of ground about fifty yards long by thirty at its broadest part, with a crude well in the centre. Round the bottom of the crater, about three feet from the level of the ground proper, ran a series of eighty-three semi-circular ovoid, square, and multilateral holes, all about three feet at the mouth. Each hole on inspection showed that it was carefully shored internally with drift-wood and bamboos, and over the mouth a wooden drip-board projected, like the peak of a jockey's cap, for two feet. No sign of ...
— The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition • Rudyard Kipling
... CONICUM, Pers. AEthalia small, ovoid-conic, gregarious, sometimes close together with the bases confluent, the surface pale umber or olivaceous marked with short brown lines, regularly dehiscent at the apex. The wall thin; the outer layer ...
— The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio • A. P. Morgan
... above the oesophagus: applied to two large ovoid ganglia so situated, and connected by a short, thick ...
— Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology • John. B. Smith |
