Definition of Hemispheric

1. Adjective. Of or relating to the cerebral hemispheres.

Partainyms: Hemisphere
Derivative terms: Hemisphere

Definition of Hemispheric

1. a. Containing, or pertaining to, a hemisphere; as, a hemispheric figure or form; a hemispherical body.

Definition of Hemispheric

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to operating throughout a hemisphere. ¹

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Definition of Hemispheric

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hemispheric

hemisecting
hemisection
hemisections
hemisects
hemisensory
hemiseptum
hemisolvate
hemispasm
hemispatial
hemispheral
hemisphere
hemispherectomies
hemispherectomy
hemispheres
hemispheric
hemispherical
hemispherically
hemispherium
hemispherium cerebelli
hemispherium cerebri
hemispheroid
hemispheroidal
hemispheroids
hemispherule
hemispherules
hemisphære
hemisphæres
hemisphæric

Literary usage of Hemispheric

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"... (hem-e^sfer'-ik) J Half round ; containing half a globe. Hemispheric AL, (hem-e-sfe/-e-kal) 1 ..."

2. Botany of the United States North of Virginia: Comprising Descriptions of by Lewis Caleb Beck (1848)
"... heads hemispheric, in paniculate racemes; scales of the involucre roundish or ovate, scarious on the margin. terminal paniculate racemes. ..."

3. The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White, George Christopher Davies (1890)
"Again, the regular nest of the house- martin is hemispheric ; but where a rafter, or a joist, or a cornice, may happen to stand m the way, the nest is so ..."

4. Flora of Pennsylvania by Thomas Conrad Porter (1903)
"Involucre hemispheric: heads large : achenes terete. 39. ANTHEMIS. b. ... Involucre with several series of bracts : receptacle flat or hemispheric. 40. ..."

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