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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Orbicular.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Made or being in the form of orb, orbit, or orbicle; orbicular.
  2. In botany, same as orbicular.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. spherical or circular; orbicular

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. That which is orbiculate; especially, a solid the vertical section of which is oval, and the horizontal section circular.
  2. adj. Made, or being, in the form of orb; having a circular, or nearly circular, or a spheroidal, outline.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. circular or nearly circular

Etymologies

  1. From Latin orbiculātus, from orbiculus. (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin orbiculātus, from orbiculus, diminutive of orbis, circle, disk. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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