Prolate, ellipsoid, oval, ovate, and ovoid all can mean egg-shaped. The word oval refers to objects that are egg shaped. It comes from the Latin word ovum, which means egg.
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Ovoid means "seeming like an oval" or "egg-shaped."
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egg shaped OR elliptical
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A three dimensional oval is simply called an egg, or more
mathematically, an ovoid. A three dimensional ellipse (a more
symmetric oval) is called a prolate spheroid, or oblate spheroid,
depending on how the ellipse is rotated.