Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the form of a small sphere; round; globular.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Globular; spherical; orbicular.
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- adjective
globular ;spherical
Etymologies
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Examples
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But I was not happy about this piece, and I wanted to do something about it before that globulous layer of crap dried forever.
The Art of Screwing Up princessalethea 2010
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“Although the internet is now the mainstream platform regarding the dissemination of sports, entertainment, information and news across the globe, 98% of it is still a pink globulous mass of bodily fluids and moustaches” admitted Ebbsfleet.
“Well Obviously ‘Porn’ As Well”, Say Google Push Jelly 2008
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That globulous fraud, Dr. Johnson, is coming to tea.
The blue haze of distance superversive 2006
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“Although the internet is now the mainstream platform regarding the dissemination of sports, entertainment, information and news across the globe, 98% of it is still a pink globulous mass of bodily fluids and moustaches” admitted Ebbsfleet.
Archive 2008-12-01 Push Jelly 2008
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A perennial aquatic herb, rooting in mud, with a creeping white globulous rhizome which produces, at intervals, a single leaf and a single flower.
Chapter 22 1987
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The mass of water was descending at them like a globulous avalanche.
The Source of Magic Anthony, Piers 1979
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Out-of-doors the air struck exquisitely cool and fresh to heated faces; the courtyard was lapped in shadow, but once through and in the farmyard the moon was visible, still near the horizon and swimming up inflated, globulous, like a vast aureate bubble.
Secret Bread F. Tennyson Jesse
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Well, Marion, for all brainless unjust atrocities, commend me to sleek globulous Rajahs of Indian principalities!
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For anyone who knows this only as cubes of rubbery pig meat, clumped into heavy batter balls and doused in a cloyingly treacly, globulous red sauce, this was nothing like that.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Matthew Norman 2011
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As it reaches its climax, there are no clear shapes onstage, just a vast shadowy canvas soaking up globulous projections, and all you can see and hear emanating from it is a sensual golden glow with vague silhouettes lurking behind it, given form by the glorious flood of Jónsi Birgisson's stratospheric vocals.
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