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globose, a.|gləʊˈbəʊs| [ad. L. globōs-us, f. globus globe; cf. OF. globeux, globous.] Having the form of a globe; completely or approximately spherical. Now only in scientific use.
c1475in 11th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. III. (1887) 15 In the begynnynge when thow made all of nowght, A globose mater, and derke undur confusion. 1667Milton P.L. vii. 357 First the Sun..he framd..then formd the Moon Globose. 1707Phil. Trans. XXV. 2389 Two great Globose Tumors. 1757Pultney ibid. L. 61 The fruit is a globose berry. 1807Crabbe Par. Reg. i. 140 The leek, with crown globose and reedy stem. 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) IV. 74 It is then that the breasts assume a globose plumpness. 1874Coues Birds N.W. 133 The egg is usually rather globose. absol. (quasi-n.)1667Milton P.L. v. 753 All the Earth, And all the Sea, from one entire globose Stretcht into Longitude. Hence gloˈbosely adv., gloˈboseness.
1727Bailey, Globoseness. 1840Paxton Bot. Dict., Globosely-elliptical, between spherical and oval. 1854Woodward Mollusca ii. 162 Helix Pomatia..Shell..globosely depressed or conoidal. 1880Watson in Jrnl. Linn. Soc. XV. No. 82. 98 Shell—globosely conical. |