adjective
- Having the polar diameter greater than the equatorial diameter.
- usage: "a prolate spheroid is generated by revolving an ellipse about its major axis"
- synonyms: watermelon-shaped
- Rounded like an egg.
- synonyms: egg-shaped, elliptic, elliptical, oval, oval-shaped, ovate, oviform, ovoid
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