orbicular
adjective
suborbicular
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a word derived from
orbicular.
Example Sentences
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The second glume is a little longer than the first but shorter than the third, broadly ovate or suborbicular, hyaline, 5-nerved.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari
Depressed and stoloniferous; flowers mostly cleistogamous; leaves small, suborbicular to reniform.—Ky. to Fla. and Tex.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
P. thin, reniform or suborbicular, convex then exp. ochre or subfuscous, glabrous, somewhat shining; g. numerous, very thin, colour of p.; s. lateral, oblique; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
The first glume is about half of the third glume, broadly ovate or suborbicular, acute, generally 3-nerved, rarely 5-nerved, pubescent between and hispidly hairy on the nerves.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari
P. lateral, produced at base into a short oblique stem, suborbicular or reniform, exp. very glabrous, smoky fuscous, centre paler; g. white, anastomosing behind. salignus, Pers.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
