globoid

American  

[gloh-boid] / ˈgloʊ bɔɪd /

adjective

1. approximately globular.

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noun

1. a globoid figure or body.

globoid British  

/ ˈɡləʊbɔɪd /

adjective

1. shaped approximately like a globe

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noun

1. a globoid body, such as any of those occurring in certain plant granules

Other Word Forms

• subgloboid adjective

Etymology

Origin of globoid

First recorded in 1870–75; globe + -oid

Example Sentences

When he taught geometry, Ms. Roberts reports, he pulled up his shirt and used his own globoid belly to illustrate the mathematical notion of curvature.

From The Wall Street Journal

Another scientist, backed by his boss at the Rockefeller Institute in New York, claimed to have identified the polio virus in some "globoid bodies" in 1913 and diverted medicine down the wrong track for two decades, until the objects were revealed as harmless globules of fat.

From The Guardian

Elongated Globoid Will not invert maltose.

From Project Gutenberg

High Elongated Globoid Inverts neither maltose nor saccharose.

From Project Gutenberg

S. cereviseae I. 30� 20�-28� High Rounded Globoid Inverts maltose and saccharose and form alcohol 4-6 vol.

From Project Gutenberg