Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the shape of a half-orb or-sphere.
- 2. In entomology, bounded approximately by half a circle and its diameter.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having the shape of a half orb or sphere.
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- adjective Having the shape of a
half orb orsphere .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Dodonaea microzyga, F.M. Somewhat viscid, almost glabrous; leaves with 1 to 2 pairs of small obovate-cuneate leaflets; in front rounded, or truncate, or retuse, or sometimes 3-toothed, flat at the margin; rachis dilated; fruit-bearing pedicels solitary; capsules 3 to 4-celled; valves cymbeo-semiorbicular, all around broadly winged; the wing rounded-blunt on both extremities; dissepiments persistent with the columella.
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Dodonaea microzyga, F.M. Somewhat viscid, almost glabrous; leaves with 1 to 2 pairs of small obovate-cuneate leaflets; in front rounded, or truncate, or retuse, or sometimes 3-toothed, flat at the margin; rachis dilated; fruit-bearing pedicels solitary; capsules 3 to 4-celled; valves cymbeo-semiorbicular, all around broadly winged; the wing rounded-blunt on both extremities; dissepiments persistent with the columella.
Explorations in Australia The Journals of John McDouall Stuart John McDouall Stuart 1840
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