Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A prolate ellipsoid.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Geom.) A prolate spheroid; a figure described by the revolution of an ellipse about its greater axis. Cf.
oblatum , and see Ellipsoid of revolution, underellipsoid .
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- noun geometry, archaic A
prolate spheroid ; afigure described by therevolution of anellipse about its greateraxis .
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Examples
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Corpus oblongum, subtus disco plano se promovens: Body oblong, underneath in the front (?) a flat disk.
Archive 2009-01-01 AYDIN 2009
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Corpus oblongum, subtus disco plano se promovens: Body oblong, underneath in the front? a flat disk.
Linnaeus's folly AYDIN 2009
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Blight in chestnuts, nectria canker and blight in black walnuts, blight in filberts (Cryptosporella), scab in pecans, and die-back Melanconium oblongum in butternuts.
Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943
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The butternut is attacked by one serious disease which is in the nature of a blight (melanconium oblongum), since it is transmitted through spores.
Growing Nuts in the North A Personal Story of the Author's Experience of 33 Years with Nut Culture in Minnesota and Wisconsin Carl Weschcke 1933
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Adiantum foliis in oblongum scissis, pediculo viridi.
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Mercurius tiw et HoUienio 8u«peciom Tisom est, qni duM sians d. oblongum caduceum.
Doctrina nvmorvm vetervm conscripta a Josepho Eckhel .. Hohler, Emerich Thomas, 1781-1846. [from old catalog] 1792
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Caput oblongum» nigroin, nitidum» ptin Aulatum, thorads ladtudt* ne; Antenna vix extrorfum cras - fiores» capite longiores.
Monographia Staphylinorum sveciae Gustaf von Paykull 1789
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Corpifi oblongum rcpens: fiipracly - peo carnDfo: fubtus difco loa - gicudinali plano.
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Tn - mx, vas oblongum» augu - deiignat, item feptemiura - nilonum. pone caput M. Antonii fpe - illius augurale facerdotium, le fungebatur.
Lexicon vniversae rei nvmariae vetervm et praecipve Graecorvm ac Romanorvm: cvm observationibvs ... Johann Christoph Rasche 1785
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Thomas, Raymundus, Antoninus, & alii, quos omncs cum fuis fententiis, & Jurium tcxribus adducere nimis oblongum eftet, Vid. verb.
Adm. rev. p. F. Lucii Ferraris ... Prompta Bibliotheca canonica, juridica, moralis, theologica ... 1782
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