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ellipsoidal

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What does ellipsoidal mean?

adjective

  1. Alternative form of ellipsoid.
  2. Of or pertaining to an ellipsoid.

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Four Kalabits were noted as having oval heads, in 1 the occiput was prominent, 1 ovoid, and 1 woman ellipsoidal.
Charles Hose; William McDougallThe Pagan Tribes of Borneo A Description of Their Physical Moral and Intellectual Condition, with Some Discussion of Their Ethnic RelationsProject Gutenberg ebook #3307
It is not of course proved that the figures of the stars are ellipsoids, but gravitation must deform them into a pair of elongated bodies, and, on the assumptions that they are not enveloped in an absorptive atmosphere and that they are ellipsoidal, their shapes must be as shown in the figure.
A. C. (Albert Charles) SewardDarwin and Modern ScienceProject Gutenberg ebook #1909