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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- 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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Examples
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The = pileus = is rounded, then hemispherical (semi-globate), smooth, fleshy at the center, thinner toward the margin, even, very viscid or viscous when moist, light yellow.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886
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