Lanceolate (lance-shaped) is a term for a shape that tapers to a point at both ends, but not necessarily uniformly so (and it seems to be mostly used for leaf shapes). So maybe a symmetric or uniform lanceolate?
“Fusiform” (for ‘spindle shaped’) is an adjectival description of a geometric lemon.
Lenticular implies to me a disc-shaped object with a narrowed edge, lacking discrete ‘ends’.
Oblate spheroid
Man, I learn things on the SD every single day. Thank you!
Although, there are some regrettable slang consequences of calling anything except the citrus fruit a “lemon”.
Lemonticular?
The sub-species Citrus jambhiri could be viewed as lenticular.
They produce a coherent image of two different lemons, as do most lenticular images, but it is the same lemon from two different perspectives
https://www.pickmenursery.co.za/shop/plants-2/trees-tre/fruit-trees/citrus-lemon-cape-rough-skin/
Doesn’t “lenticular” just mean eye shaped. I mean len is right in the word, and all.
Eye shape and the pisces(fishy shape) are connected in other ways. Culturally.
If you want a descriptive word, Evil eye shape is perfect. Wanna sound smart use lenticular.
No.
Lens is Latin for lentil.
The diminutive lenticula is lentil-shaped, thus lenticular.
It just so happens that the lens of the eye is so shaped, thus the name.
I believe you mean prolate spheroid. But that’s a 3D object, not a 2D shape.
Also, neither type of spheroid has pointed ends.
True, although the prolate spheroid is at least “pointy” like a football.
Well, maybe like a rugby ball. The poles of an American football seem rather nondifferentiable.
I don’t understand what you mean. It sounds like you’re saying that one can’t tell the difference between one end of an American football and the other. That seems rather the point (if you will), and the same as a rugby ball, although the sizes are a little different. The American ball is apparently 1 cm longer and 4 cm less in circumference; it is also slightly more pointed than the rugby ball. See illustration:
https://www.welon-huahui.com/news-the-difference-between-rugby-ball-and-american-football.html
That was my point (no pun intended). I was using “nondifferentiable” in the mathematical sense. An American football has two sharp points, unlike a rugby ball or a prolate spheroid, which is differentiable everywhere.
Isn’t that spoilered link a picture of the mythical creature Sheela-Na-Gig?
It is she indeed.
To the point, or not, the corners of the eye are canthi (singular = canthus).
From the time I visited Turkiye, it seems to me the evil eye is more round.
Those are wards against the evil eye (nazar).