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adjectiverounded like an egg
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"the dialogue is elliptic and full of dark hints" "the explanation was concise, even elliptical to the verge of obscurity"adjectivecharacterized by extreme economy of expression or omission of superfluous elements
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adjective(of a leaf shape) in the form of an ellipse
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Definition that contains elliptic
- orbit the (usually elliptical) path described by one celestial body in its revolution about another
- comet (astronomy) a relatively small extraterrestrial body consisting of a frozen mass that travels around the sun in a highly elliptical orbit
- pluto a large asteroid that was once thought to be the farthest known planet from the sun; it has an elliptical orbit
- slater any of various small terrestrial isopods having a flat elliptical segmented body; found in damp habitats
- plantain any of numerous plants of the genus Plantago; mostly small roadside or dooryard weeds with elliptic leaves and small spikes of very small flowers; seeds of some used medicinally
- dulcimer a stringed instrument used in American folk music; an elliptical body and a fretted fingerboard and three strings
- paraboloid a surface having parabolic sections parallel to a single coordinate axis and elliptic sections perpendicular to that axis
- opah large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean
- sweet sand verbena taller than Abronia elliptica and having night-blooming flowers
- leptarrhena pyrolifolia plant with basal leathery elliptic leaves and erect leafless flower stalks each bearing a dense roundish cluster of tiny white flowers; moist places of northwestern North America to Oregon and Idaho