hemispheric
[hem-i-sfer-ik]
- of or relating to a hemisphere.
- hemispherical(def 1).
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Origin of hemispheric
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Contemporary Examples of hemispheric
After all, what was achieved by excluding Cuba from the meeting of hemispheric leaders?
Historical Examples of hemispheric
But my national—not to say my hemispheric—pride suffered a terrible blow as the season advanced.
A Little Swiss SojournW. D. Howells
And it is the uniting of the two hemispheric seas that so irresistibly suggests the essential union of the nations.
The United SeasRobert W. Rogers
Columella white, hemispheric or depressed and irregular, the surface granulose.
The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, OhioA. P. Morgan
In Latin America, the American chiefs of state will be meeting very shortly to give our hemispheric policies new direction.
Fertile receptacle hemispheric, 1–4-lobed, with as many alternating shorter rib-like rays.
Word Origin and History for hemispheric
1580s, from hemisphere + -ic.
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