prō'lāt'
Having the shape of an egg.
Marked by deliberate obscurity of style or expression.
The definition of elliptical is something that resembles or relates to an ellipse, a plane that intersects a cone.
Resembling an egg in shape.
rounded like an egg
(Botany) Shaped like an egg and flat, with the broad end toward the base:
Egg-shaped
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watermelon-shaped
having the polar diameter greater than the equatorial diameter
oblate
Having an equatorial diameter greater than the distance between poles; compressed along or flattened at the poles:
Find another word for prolate. In this page you can discover 10 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for prolate, like: egg-shaped, elliptic, elliptical, oval, oval-shaped, ovate, oviform, ovoid, watermelon-shaped and oblate.
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