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Oval

O'VAL, a. [L. ovum, an egg.]
1. Of the shape or figure of an egg; oblong; curvilinear; resembling the longitudinal section of an egg. It is sometimes synonymous with elliptical; but an ellipsis is equally broad at both ends, and is not strictly egg-shaped.
2. Pertaining to eggs; done in the egg; as oval conceptions.
O'VAL, n. A body or figure in the shape of an egg.

 

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