Oblong

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  • A geometrical figure longer than wide, such as a non-square rectangle
  • A term for leaf shape
  • Angus Oblong, American author and actor
  • Oblong, Illinois, a village in the United States
  • The Oblong, a historic tract of land in Dutchess County, New York, in the United States
  • An Oblong is also a rare fruit grown in the heat of Cuba- very few exports are given as the sweet flavoured fruit is a rare sight to behold. It appears to have seeds ranging from 5 to 13 in the quarter supporting the backbone. Oblongs are grown on the tall mango-like trees, which makes them so rare as only few remain on earth. If you ever see an Oblong please take a picture before you eat it!

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The archetypical oblong shape is a circle cut in half and extended via straight lines between the previously-connected endpoints of the semicircles; the result is not an ellipse, but a different form of "stretched circle".

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