globose
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- globosely adverb
- globoseness noun
- globosity noun
- subglobose adjective
- subglobosely adverb
- subgloboseness noun
- subglobosity noun
Etymology
Origin of globose
1400–50; late Middle English < Latin globōsus spherical, forming a globelike mass. See globe, -ose 1
Example Sentences
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Despite these directional trends, however, ceratioids also displayed remarkable variability in body shapes from the archetypical globose anglerfish to elongated forms like the "wolftrap" phenotype, which features a jaw structure resembling a trap.
From Science Daily
Shell globose, wrinkled, olive; spire prominent, acute, the whorls ventricose; margin of the aperture thick, fulvous, grooved; umbilicus small, linear, near the middle of the inner lip; operculum shelly.
From Project Gutenberg
Shell globose, very smooth, olive; spire depressed; margin of the aperture thick, fulvous, grooved; umbilicus small, contracted, placed near the base; operculum shelly.
From Project Gutenberg
Erect or often prostrate, the lower clusters at least of pistillate flowers more or less cymose and often in globose heads; bracts thinner, narrow and lax, shorter than the fruit.
From Project Gutenberg
The other is of a more globose form than the bitter sort, and has a very obtuse hinge and margin.
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