Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of globular is as below...

Shot :: Shot (n.) Small globular masses of lead, of various sizes, -- used chiefly for killing game; as, bird shot; buckshot..

Fiorite :: Fiorite (n.) A variety of opal occuring in the cavities of volcanic tufa, in smooth and shining globular and botryoidal masses, having a pearly luster; -- so called from Fiora, in Ischia..

Bubble :: Bubble (n.) A globule of air, or globular vacuum, in a transparent solid; as, bubbles in window glass, or in a lens..

Buttonbush :: Buttonbush (n.) A shrub (Cephalanthus occidentalis) growing by the waterside; -- so called from its globular head of flowers. See Capitulum.

Dubber :: Dubber (n.) A globular vessel or bottle of leather, used in India to hold ghee, oil, etc..

Spheric :: Spheric (a.) Having the form of a sphere; like a sphere; globular; orbicular; as, a spherical body..

Globefish :: Globefish (n.) A plectognath fish of the genera Diodon, Tetrodon, and allied genera. The globefishes can suck in water or air and distend the body to a more or less globular form. Called also porcupine fish, and sea hedgehog. See Diodon..

Bead :: Bead (n.) Any small globular bod.

Heliozoa :: Heliozoa (n. pl.) An order of fresh-water rhizopods having a more or less globular form, with slender radiating pseudopodia; the sun animalcule..

Capitulum :: Capitulum (n.) A thick head of flowers on a very short axis, as a clover top, or a dandelion; a composite flower. A capitulum may be either globular or flat..

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..

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..

Globose :: Globose (a.) Having a rounded form resembling that of a globe; globular, or nearly so; spherical..

Porites :: Porites (n.) An important genus of reef-building corals having small twelve-rayed calicles, and a very porous coral. Some species are branched, others grow in large massive or globular forms..

Round :: Round (a.) Having every portion of the surface or of the circumference equally distant from the center; spherical; circular; having a form approaching a spherical or a circular shape; orbicular; globular; as, a round ball..

Orbulina :: Orbulina (n.) A genus of minute living Foraminifera having a globular shell.

Globulous :: Globulous (a.) Globular; spherical; orbicular.

Globiferous :: Globiferous (a.) Having a round or globular tip.

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

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..

Random Fonts

Most Popular