Definition of globular

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Globular (a.) Globe-shaped; having the form of a ball or sphere; spherical, or nearly so; as, globular atoms..

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Globe :: Globe (n.) Anything which is nearly spherical or globular in shape; as, the globe of the eye; the globe of a lamp..
Buttonbush :: Buttonbush (n.) A shrub (Cephalanthus occidentalis) growing by the waterside; -- so called from its globular head of flowers. See Capitulum.
Globosely :: Globosely (adv.) In a globular manner; globularly.
Pisolite :: Pisolite (n.) A variety of calcite, or calcium carbonate, consisting of aggregated globular concretions about the size of a pea; -- called also peastone, peagrit..
Bead :: Bead (n.) Any small globular bod.
Globularness :: Globularness (n.) Sphericity; globosity.
Volvox :: Volvox (n.) A genus of minute, pale-green, globular, organisms, about one fiftieth of an inch in diameter, found rolling through water, the motion being produced by minute colorless cilia. It has been considered as belonging to the flagellate Infusoria, but is now referred to the vegetable kingdom, and each globule is considered a colony of many individuals. The commonest species is Volvox globator, often called globe animalcule..
Boll :: Boll (n.) The pod or capsule of a plant, as of flax or cotton; a pericarp of a globular form..
Gutwort :: Gutwort (n.) A plant, Globularia Alypum, a violent purgative, found in Africa..
Groundnut :: Groundnut (n.) A European plant of the genus Bunium (B. flexuosum), having an edible root of a globular shape and sweet, aromatic taste; -- called also earthnut, earth chestnut, hawknut, and pignut..
Heliozoa :: Heliozoa (n. pl.) An order of fresh-water rhizopods having a more or less globular form, with slender radiating pseudopodia; the sun animalcule..
Celeriac :: Celeriac (n.) Turnip-rooted celery, a from of celery with a large globular root, which is used for food..
Globularly :: Globularly (adv.) Spherically.
Globular :: Globular (a.) Globe-shaped; having the form of a ball or sphere; spherical, or nearly so; as, globular atoms..
Dubber :: Dubber (n.) A globular vessel or bottle of leather, used in India to hold ghee, oil, etc..
Carboy :: Carboy (n.) A large, globular glass bottle, esp. one of green glass, inclosed in basket work or in a box, for protection; -- used commonly for carrying corrosive liquids; as sulphuric acid, etc..
Subglossal :: Subglobular (a.) Nearly globular.
Embowl :: Embowl (v. t.) To form like a bowl; to give a globular shape to.
Tumbledung :: Tumbledung (n.) Any one of numerous species of scaraboid beetles belonging to Scarabaeus, Copris, Phanaeus, and allied genera. The female lays her eggs in a globular mass of dung which she rolls by means of her hind legs to a burrow excavated in the earth in which she buries it..
Vacuole :: Vacuole (n.) A small air cell, or globular space, in the interior of organic cells, either containing air, or a pellucid watery liquid, or some special chemical secretions of the cell protoplasm..
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