orbicular
adjective
suborbicular
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a word derived from
orbicular.
Example Sentences
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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 suborbicular, about half the length of the third glume, usually 3-nerved.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari
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
The stem is wanting, and the cap is shelving, dimidiate, reniform or suborbicular.
From Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by George Francis Atkinson
