orbicular

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H. vulgare nummularium differs in having the leaves green and sub-orbicular, with yellow flowers.

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  1. adjective Circular or spherical.
  2. adjective Botany Circular and flat. Used especially of leaves.

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  • Intent on breaking the spirit of the inhabitants, Frederick had, according to Burney, pointed his cannons at the city's proudest landmark: "The King of Prussia, in his last bombardment of Dresden, tried every means in his power to beat this church … but in vain, for the orbicular form of the dome threw off the balls and shells, and totally prevented their effect." —  CounterPunch
  • According to one English traveler of the 1770s: "The King of Prussia, in his last bombardment of Dresden, tried every means in his power to beat this church … but in vain, for the orbicular form of the dome threw off the balls and shells, and totally prevented their effect." —  CounterPunch
  • The first glume is orbicular, oblong or ovate, about one-third the length of the third glume, hyaline, 3-nerved. —  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
  • The grain is orbicular, ventrally furrowed and enclosed by the polished hard bract Coix lachryma-jobi, L. This is a tall monoecious leafy annual (rarely perennial) grass with stout, smooth, polished, freely branching stems rooting at the lower nodes and varying in length from 3 to 5 feet or more The leaf-sheath is long, usually smooth but occasionally with scattered tubercle-based hairs. —  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
  • The grain is orbicular, compressed, channelled at the back and enclosed within the stony, hardened and polished bract This grass usually grows in paddy fields. —  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
 

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  1. Middle English orbiculer, from Old French orbiculaire, from Late Latin orbiculāris, from Latin orbiculus, diminutive of orbis, circle, disk.

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  1. from Middle English orbicular = French orbiculaire = Spanish Portuguese orbicular = Italian orbiculare, orbicolare, from Late Latin orbicularis, circular (applied to a plant), from Latin orbiculus, a small disk: see orbicle.
 

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/ɔrˈbɪkjulər/
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