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prolate

 
Adjective prolate has 2 senses
  1. prolate, watermelon-shaped - having the polar diameter greater than the equatorial diameter; "a prolate spheroid is generated by revolving an ellipse about its major axis"
    Antonyms: oblate, pumpkin-shaped
  2. egg-shaped, elliptic, elliptical, oval, ovate, oviform, ovoid, prolate - rounded like an egg
    Antonyms: angular, angulate (indirect, via rounded)
prolan prolapse prolapsed prolapsed cord prolapses prolapsus prolaspe prolatariat prolate prolate cycloid prole prolem prolepsis proleptic proletanat proletarait proletarial

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