Orbicular

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Circular or spherical.
  • adj. Botany Circular and flat. Used especially of leaves.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Circular or spherical in shape; round.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Resembling or having the form of an orb; spherical; circular; orbiculate.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Having the shape of an orb or orbit; spherical; circular; discoidal; round.
  • Rounded; complete; perfect.
  • In entomology, having a regularly rounded surface and bordered by a circular margin: as, the orbicular pronotum of a beetle.
  • In botany, having the shape of a flat body with a nearly circular outline: as, an orbicular leaf. Also orbiculate.
  • n. In entomology, a circular mark or spot nearly always found on the anterior wings of the noctuid moths.
  • In petrography, in phanerocrystal-line igneous rocks, having large spheroidal aggregations of minerals, in radial or concentric groups of megascopic crystals: as, orbicular granite, orbicular diorite.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. having the shape of a sphere or ball
  • adj. circular or nearly circular
  • Equivalent
    circular    round    unsubdivided    simple   
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    Words with the same meaning
    spherical    circular    orbiculate   
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