Definitions for ellipsoidal

ellipsoidal el·lip·soi·dal

Spelling: [ih-lip-soid-l, el-ip-, ee-lip-]
IPA: /ɪ lɪpˈsɔɪd l, ˌɛl ɪp-, ˌi lɪp-/

Ellipsoidal is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 605 anagrams from letters in ellipsoidal (adeiilllops).

Definitions for ellipsoidal

adjective

  1. pertaining to or having the form of an ellipsoid.

Origin of ellipsoidal

First recorded in 1825-35; ellipsoid + -al1

Examples for ellipsoidal

The ellipsoidal Central Capsule, with one axis elongated, so that it becomes the vertical main axis of the body.

Shell composed of four concentric shells, two ellipsoidal cortical shells, and two spherical medullary shells.

Here it is usually enclosed in the cephalis and is spherical, ellipsoidal or spheroidal, often flattened almost into a disc.

Therefore Phatnaspis repeats the characteristic formation of Coscinaspis, from which it differs in its ellipsoidal shell.

This species being observed alive, showed a transparent central capsule of ellipsoidal form, two-thirds as large as the shell.

Small animals with ellipsoidal form and about twice as long as broad.

Cortical shell twice as long as broad, with rough surface, four times as large as the ellipsoidal medullary shell.

Differs from the preceding in the ellipsoidal form of both medullary shells, and in the finer structure of the spongy framework.

The cups are small, varying much in color and the sporidia are ellipsoidal.

Medullary shell (fig. 9) half as large as the cortical, ellipsoidal and papillate, with regular, circular pores.

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