Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Almost orbiculate or orbicular; nearly circular.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Almost orbiculate or orbicular.
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- adjective Almost
orbicular .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The _first glume_ is 1/3 to 1/2 of the third glume, suborbicular, abruptly acuminate or rarely mucronate and 5-nerved
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The _fourth glume_ is broadly ovate, or suborbicular, very concave, coriaceous, transversely rugulose, yellowish brown.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The _first glume_ is hyaline, suborbicular, rounded at the tip and nerveless, 1/30 inch or less.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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_Flowering glumes_ are broadly ovate or suborbicular, mucronulate, punctulate, with the lateral nerves equidistant from the margins and the median nerve, and produced far up towards the median nerve; palea is broad, shorter than its glume, deciduous with it, and with winged and scabrid keels.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The _first glume_ is about half of the third glume, broadly ovate or suborbicular, acute, generally
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The _second glume_ is a little longer than the first but shorter than the third, broadly ovate or suborbicular, hyaline, 5-nerved.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The _first glume_ is suborbicular, about half the length of the third glume, usually 3-nerved.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The first glume is very small, hyaline, suborbicular, nerveless and truncate.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The stem is wanting, and the cap is shelving, dimidiate, reniform or suborbicular.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886
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Several familiar forms of plants were discovered; also a new Eucalyptus, with a glaucous suborbicular subcordate leaf, and the bark of the rusty gum: a stunted or middle-sized tree, which grew in great abundance on the ranges.
Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 Ludwig Leichhardt 1830
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