more egg-shaped

adjective

having an oval form, usually with one end larger than the other.

Origin:
1760–70

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egg-shaped
adjective
rounded like an egg

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More egg-shaped is always a great word to know.

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an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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