egg-shaped

3 2.5

Having a shape like an egg

adjective
/ˈɛɡˌʃeɪpt/

: ovalado

Imagine an egg-shaped chamber with a pipe inside it that emerges outside.

I I feel like I have more of a, an Oval like an like an egg shaped face.

Examples

It's like just a mini egg shaped brush and it works so nicely.
A 2 cm egg-shaped mass was extracted during the procedure.

Academic text (1996)
Only the ball's a little bigger and egg-shaped, like my head.

The Longest Yard (2005)
Its face was marked with huge, egg-shaped eyes and a wide, gentle smile.

Fiction book (1992)
The paintings would be hung across the curved walls of two egg shaped rooms.
The kiwifruit, also known as kiwi or Chinese gooseberry, is an egg-shaped fruit that is a similar size to a chicken egg.

Blog text (17)
Immediately ahead of her, a small single-person egg-shaped ESCAPE POD sits on a pad beyond the open station-side door of an airlock.

Fiction book (1996)
The room into which the elevator discharged him was vast, roughly egg-shaped, larger at the base than at the apex, with snow-white carpeting and walls of midnight blue.

Fiction book (2001)
From the back, Mona looked like Humpty Dumpty: a large egg-shaped trunk, pale and smooth, planted upon stumpy legs that were varicosed and bristly.

Fiction book (2000)
The artist created a beautiful sculpture in the form of an egg-shaped vase.

Synonyms

oval

vsegg-shaped

38 1.0

Having a rounded shape that is slightly longer than a circle, like an egg

is the general descriptive term often used for three dimensional forms

elliptical

vsegg-shaped

12 4.5

Having an oval shape like an egg

is the common descriptive term rather than technical geometry

ovoid

vsegg-shaped

1 6.1

Having a rounded shape like an egg

is the general descriptive word without technical nuance

oval-shaped

vsegg-shaped

1 3.0

A shape that is long and round like an egg

is the broader descriptive term that can imply a three dimensional form

prolate

vsegg-shaped

Specialized

1 9.9

Longer than it is wide, like an egg or rugby ball

is the neutral shape word without emphasis on axis stretching

elliptic

vsegg-shaped

6.5

A shape like an egg or an oval

is the common descriptive term rather than technical geometry

oviform

vsegg-shaped

Specialized

9.1

Shaped like an egg

is the general shape word not emphasizing three dimensional taper

ovoidal

vsegg-shaped

6.6

Shaped like an egg

is the more neutral everyday description of the same form

egglike

vsegg-shaped

2.5

Shaped like an egg

is the neutral descriptive term without playful or poetic tone

eggy

vsegg-shaped

3.3

Shaped like an egg

is the neutral descriptive term without informal tone

ovate

vsegg-shaped

Specialized

7.2

Having an egg shape that is wider near the base, often for leaves

is the broader term not restricted to widest part placement

How Oval

elongated

9 4.5

egg-shaped

3 2.5

rounded

1 2.4

circular

84 2.8

Surface Forms

egg-shaped positive

Morphology

egg-shaped = egg + shaped (transparent) = egg + shape + ed

The word is a clear compound meaning 'shaped like an egg', with the participial adjective 'shaped' contributing the main descriptive structure.

Etymology

The word egg-shaped comes from the two simple parts egg and shaped, meaning 'like an egg'. So it describes something rounded and a little wider at one end, an easy image to remember when you think of an egg.