- A body or figure approaching to a sphere, but not
perfectly spherical; esp., a solid generated by the revolution of an
ellipse about one of its axes.
Meaning of 'spheroid' (Princeton's WordNet)
1 . spheroid
[ n]
Meaning (1): - a shape that is generated by rotating an ellipse around one of its axes
Example in sentence:
it looked like a sphere but on closer examination I saw it was really a spheroid