Oblate

The Earth is an oblate spheroid.

2007, The Venerable Bede started as an oblate at St Paul's, Jarrow, but by the time of his death in 735 was surely the most learned man in Europe. — Tom Shippey, ‘I Lerne Song’, London Review of Books 29:4, p. 19

an Oblate Father

The Earth is an oblate spheroid.

Why should I not speak to him or to any human being who walks upright upon this oblate orange?

’Tis prolate, still,’ with a long dejected Geordie O. ‘Isn’t it…?’ ‘I’m an Astronomer,– trust me, ’tis gone well to oblate.’