Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having the form of a globe; spherical; spheroidal.
  • noun A globular sponge-spicule such as occurs in the tetractinellid genera Geodites and Geodia.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having the form of a globe; spherical.

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  • adjective Having the form of a globe; spherical.

Etymologies

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Latin globatus, past participle of globare to make into a ball, from globus ball.

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