orbicular

How to use orbicular in a sentence

• This shell is very like Cytherea loeta, but differs from it in its markings, as well as its outline, which is more orbicular.

  Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia] [Volume 2 of 2] | Phillip Parker King

• Its shape varies from triangular to orbicular, the mouth of the animal forming the vertex of the triangle.

  An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. III (of 4) | William Kirby

• This mass was of a flattened, orbicular shape, and its surface coated with a green oxide.

  Summary Narrative of an Exploratory Expedition to the Sources of the Mississippi River, in 1820 | Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

• The precipices on the east shore shot up into spiral points; yet the orbicular elevations are covered with grass and shrubbery.

  Summary Narrative of an Exploratory Expedition to the Sources of the Mississippi River, in 1820 | Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

• If my observations were well taken it embraces, sparingly, orbicular masses of hornblende.

  Summary Narrative of an Exploratory Expedition to the Sources of the Mississippi River, in 1820 | Henry Rowe Schoolcraft