Definition of "ovoidal" [ovoidal]

• Somewhat ovoid (adjective)

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• "It had large, owlish eyes; ears that were capable of facing backward or forward; a wide, toothless mouth that seemed to split its flattened, ovoidal skull almost in half; and a small, constantly wiggling proboscis."
• "The speaking/breathing trunk that protruded from the top of their ovoidal hairless skulls recoiled back against the edges of their flat-brimmed rain hats, and the secondary eating trunks that hung from the underside, or chin region, of their heads twitched nervously."
• "The most ancient churches in Wales have circular or ovoidal churchyards -- a form essentially Celtic -- and it may well be that these sacred spots were dedicated to religious purposes in pagan times, and were appropriated by the early Christians, -- not, perhaps, without opposition on the part of the adherents of the old faith -- and consecrated to the use of the Christian religion."