Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Nearly, but not quite, circular.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Nearly circular.
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- adjective Nearly
circular ; approaching a circular form.
Etymologies
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Examples
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In addition to the ornamental crosshatching on the beak, which is also seen on the glyph from the same stela (Pl. 25, fig. 5), there is an ornamental scroll beneath the eye which likewise is crosshatched and surrounded by a ring of subcircular marks that continue to the base of the beak.
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This puparium (fig. 22 _d_) is usually dark in colour, often brown and barrel-shaped, and a subcircular lid splits off from it at the head-end to allow the emergence of the fly [11].
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In a new, as-yet-unpublished sauropod from the Lower Cretaceous of the Isle of Wight, it’s been claimed that the first and fifth metacarpals virtually touch on the posterior surface of the hand, but this is unique so far as we know (this animal wouldn’t have left horseshoe-shaped tracks, but subcircular ones … if the proposed interpretation is valid, and it might not be).
Archive 2006-04-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Dr. GRAY, are as follows: -- "Caudal disc subcircular, with large scattered tubercles; snout subacute, slightly produced.
Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon James Emerson Tennent 1836
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