spherical

• But there is another possibility that you all know of -- spherical space. —  Margaret Wertheim on the beautiful math of coral
• Its shape was not entirely spherical, although the irregularities might have been caused by the pressure of the ice, instead of being inherent in the thing originally. —  088 - The Awful Egg
• He was nearly spherical, and the oily black hair, which carried the line of his stupendous nose to a fine natural conclusion somewhere about six inches above the top of the back of his head, was curly in the way that the leaves of the kale are curly, or Italian handwriting, or the waves surrounding an ascending Aphrodite in a Pre-Raphaelite painting. —  The Fashion in Shrouds - Margery Allingham - Campion 10
• He observes that he cannot make any estimate of what his temperature will be on the American coast from what he has observed on the coast of Africa He begins now to doubt whether the world is spherical, and is disposed to believe that it is shaped like a pear, and he tries to make a theory of the difference of temperature from this suggestion. —  The life of Christopher Columbus: from his own letters and journals and other documents of his time.
• Not a lot of people admire the shape (“bullet” meaning spherical, as an old lead bullet), which is a ball with a straight spout. —  The Tartan Sell - Jonathan Gash - Lovejoy 10

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