football-shaped

Updated: July 1, 2025

To understand how the pollen substance finds its way to the ovule substance let us examine the pollen grain a little more carefully. Pollen grains are of many shapes, though usually they are globe-shaped, or football-shaped. Tiny as they are, the outer skin is often marked with grooves and ridges in a very ornamental manner. They have two skins, an outer hard one, a softer inner one.

Margaret Warner Morley - The Renewal of Life; How and When to Tell the Story to the Young

Indeed, these difficulties were insurmountable until to the sixth lesson came a fourth assistant, a being with a huge football-shaped head, whose forte was clearly the pursuit of intricate analogy.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - The First Men in the Moon