What shape are galaxy ministrels?! Dissertation help please

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Hi all,
I am trying to describe the shape of some bacterial colonies I cultured for my dissertation. All i can think is the 3-D shape was like a galaxy minstrel. I can't write that in my report, so what shape, exactly, is a galaxy Minstrel?

a sphere??

Flattened spheroid?

3 dimensional elipse?

oh gosh.

i think you should liken them to a minstrel tbh. then at least everyone will know exactly what you mean

i have gone for flattened oblate spheroid, although Minstrels is a better way of summoning the image for me! Thanks guys!

It's an Ellipsoid

God bless Standard grade Maths.

I got a 2 in standard grade Maths, did I mention .....

OOh I like your ellipsoid. It looks a bit less...well...round than my spheroid.

Scalene ellipsoid, according to Wiki, but obviously that's akin to saying credit-worthy according to Bob the Builder....

I am very disappointed. I clicked on this link thinking there was actually someone out there writing a dissertation on Galaxy Minstrels.

[Walks away, shaking head at own stupidity...]

the classic microbiology term is 'lenticular'

Oh rats.

I honestly honestly nearly went with lenticular but thought that might imply a flat base.

Honest.

This has to be one of the most pseudo-intellectual threads I've ever participated in - we're all only here because we saw the word Minstrels.