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globular

adj
/ˈɡlɒbjʊlə/UK/ˈɡlɑbjəlɚ/US

Etymology

From French globulaire or Medieval Latin globulāris.

  1. borrowed from globulāris
  2. borrowed from globulaire

Definitions

  1. Roughly spherical in shape

    Roughly spherical in shape; globe-shaped.

    • "Nary a spot," interrupted E. R. Coglan, flippantly. "The terrestrial, globular, planetary hunk of matter, slightly flattened at the poles, and known as the Earth, is my abode.[…]"
    • Podson's globular stare assured any woman that the bargain was sacred. It was solemn, intent, opaque; it was also slightly mesmeric, which is to say that it gave out everything and took in nothing.
    • Globular lights, painted a dark green, hang from under the fancy iron eaves, unlit for centuries . . .

  2. Comprising globules.

  3. A globular cluster

The neighborhood

Derived

endoglobular, globularism, globularist, globularity, globular lightning, globularly, globularness, interglobular, microglobular, nonglobular, periglobular, postglobular, preglobular, semiglobular, subglobular, unglobular, uniglobular

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for globular. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA