Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the form of a hemispheroid.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Resembling, or approximating to, a hemisphere in form.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Approximating a
hemisphere in shape.
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Examples
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He was a stout, florid man, with a bald crown, a heavy watch-chain of the best gold festooned across the wide space between waistcoat-button-hole and pocket, and a large hemispheroidal carbuncle on a huge fat finger, which yet was his little one.
Mary Marston George MacDonald 1864
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