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"it looked like a sphere but on closer examination I saw it was really a spheroid"nouna shape that is generated by rotating an ellipse around one of its axes
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- buckyball a spheroidal fullerene; the first known example of a fullerene
- genus melocactus genus of strongly ribbed globose or spheroid cacti of tropical South and Central America and the Caribbean
- melocactus genus of strongly ribbed globose or spheroid cacti of tropical South and Central America and the Caribbean
- buckminsterfullerene a spheroidal fullerene; the first known example of a fullerene