hemispheroidn.
/hɛmɪˈsfɪərɔɪd/ The half of a spheroid; a figure approaching a hemisphere.
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1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Hemispheroidal The Cacao opens when yellow and ripe, into two large Hemispheroids.
1755 J. Bevis tr. Mr. de St. Jacques Silvabelle in Philos. Trans. 1754 (Royal Soc.) 48 397 The hemispheroid of the earth formed by the section..of the circle of declination.
1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. 209 The shape of his pontons..was an oblong hemispheroid.
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