Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Spherical; globular.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Like or resembling a globe; round or spherical in form; specifically, in common use, nearly but not quite spherical or globular.
- In zoology: Rounded and very prominent; projecting from a surface like a sphere partially buried in it: as, globose eyes, coxæ, etc.
- Having a globose part: as, the globose curassow, Crax globicera.
- n. A globe.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Having a rounded form resembling that of a globe; globular, or nearly so; spherical.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having the shape of a sphere or ball
Etymologies
- From Latin globosus ("round as a ball, spherical, globular") (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The globose dune beetle and the Belkin's dune fly, both considered threatened, are also found on the reserve site.”
Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve, California
“The prey Chlorella first formed globose clusters of tens to hundreds of cells.”
“Tubers carrot-like to 10 cm long by 2 cm wide, occasionally nearly globose, up to 3.5 cm across.”
“Seeds usually 1, occasionally 2 per pod, smooth, rounded to sub-globose, cream, red, brown or black and up to 1.5 cm”
“Light green, oval or nearly globose, 3-4 cm long, turning yellow on ripening.”
“Stem purplish green arising from a globose yellowish white scaly tuber (occasionally with short protrusions) to 5 cm across and about 6-12 cm below the soil surface.”
“Nearly globose, slightly compressed, 2-3 cm long, green, turning yellowish brown on ripening.”
“Description: An extensive climber originating from a huge, usually globose, tuber up to 1 m across.”
“It has shallowly lobed leaves and sub-globose or ellipsoid orange-red fruits to 6 cm long.”
“The early-maturing radishes produce small roots, often globose, of approximately 1.25 cm diameter with a bright red skin, or red with a white tip, and (usually) white crisp flesh.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘globose’.
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Relating To: The Sky
Words of, about, or relating to the heavens.
firmament, horizon, celestial, pleiades, supernal, welkin, cerulean, hypaethral, abatjour, upaithric, canopus, cerulific and 40 more...
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Spheres
Pneumatosphere, planisphere, empyrean, bailiwick, blastula, orbicle, globose, welkin, almucantar, bathysphere, colure, blastocyst and 46 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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Circular
Adjectives meaning circular
circinate, orbicular, rotund, cyclic, arrondi, globose, orbiculate, annular, spherical, spheroid, globular, cricoid
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misc. plant morphology
the concise british flora in colour (w. keble martin) - glossary - edited, and to be added to
whorled, viviparous, vittae, viscid, villous, valvate, unarmed, umbellate, umbel, tubercle, triquetrous, trigonous and 135 more...
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conglomeration
wherewithal, wan, zoonotic, zoonosis, nebulous, nefarious, nascent, quiescent, quell, undercroft, unwitting, unutterable and 658 more...
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If I only had a brain
"cerebral" cerebral terms
cerebrum, cortex, cerebellum, cingulate, hippocampus, uncus, amygdala, locus ceruleus, tegmentum, tectum, corpora quadrigemina, optic chiasm and 42 more...
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Silence waves back at me behind a mirror
blared, puncturing, horrid, noxious, aqueous, glassy, ward, globose, fiend, bash, pomegranate, capacious and 9 more...
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Ball-shaped
Words meaning ball-shaped
spherical, globular, orbicular, spheroid, spheroidal, global, globate, rotund, globose, spheral, globous, globy and 10 more...
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