ovo-
(əʊvəʊ)
used in some words as comb. form of L. ovum egg; see most of these in their alphabetical places. Sometimes used with adjectives of form to denote an approach to an oval shape, as in ovo-eˈlliptic, ovo-ˈpyriform, ovo-rhomˈboidal.
| 1861 Hulme tr. Moquin-Tandon ii. vi. i. 292 The head [of the Head Louse] is ovo-rhomboidal. 1885 J. Beddoe Races Brit. 236 Elliptic and ovo-elliptic forms prevail in the east; pyriform and ovo-pyriform ones in the west. |