"Ovoidal" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the upper petal, and curve of the style, the flower resembles the Labiates,[34] and is the proper link between them and the Draconidae. The capsule is said by S. to be oval-ovoid. As eggs always are oval, I don't feel farther informed by the epithet. The capsule and seed both are of entirely indescribable shapes, with any number of sides—very foxglove-like, and inordinately large. The seeds of ...
— Proserpina, Volume 2 - Studies Of Wayside Flowers • John Ruskin
... of wood containing an enormous irregularly spheroidal mass of the white felted mycelium of this fungus, Polyporus sulphureus. The mass had been cut clean across, and the section exposed a number of thin brown ovoid bodies embedded in the closely woven felt; these bodies were of the size and shape of acorns, but were simply hollow shells filled with the same felt-like mycelium as that in which they were embedded. They were cut in all directions, and so appeared as circles in some cases. These ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888 • Various |
