A lay person dedicated to religious work or the religious life.

Having the equatorial diameter greater than the polar diameter; being flattened at the poles.

synonym: pumpkin-shaped.

Roget 201: short, brief, curt; compendious, compact; stubby, scrimp; shorn, stubbed; stumpy, thickset, pug; chunky [U.S.], decurtate^†; retrousse^†; stocky; squab, squabby^†; squat, dumpy; little etc. 193; curtailed of its fair proportions; short by; oblate; concise etc. 572; summary.    ... show more

Polish: dyniowaty