Definition of Globate

1. a. Having the form of a globe; spherical.

Definition of Globate

1. Adjective. Having the form of a globe; spherical. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Globate

1. spherical [adj] - See also: spherical

Lexicographical Neighbors of Globate

globality
globalizable
globalization
globalizations
globalize
globalized
globalizer
globalizers
globalizes
globalizing
globally
globals
globar
globard
globards
globate (current term)
globated
globbed
globbier
globbiest
globbing
globby
globe
globe-trot
globe-trotter
globe-trotting
globe amaranth
globe artichoke
globe cell anaemia
globe daisy

Literary usage of Globate

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

1. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1820)
"Some of the central, and some of the annular vesicles, became still more elevated and distended, and manifested an appearance of larger globate vesicles, ..."

2. Fossil Sponge Spicules from the Upper Chalk: Found in the Interior of a by George Jennings Hinde (1880)
"All the different forms of spicules which have been recognized in existing sponges of this order; the globate, globo- stellate and discoid bodies forming ..."

3. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1870)
"... of the spiral and globate kinds, and this circumstance has afforded me an additional ground for presuming the latter to belong to this category of ..."

4. The Zoological Record ...: Being Records of Zoological Literature by Zoological Record Association (London, England), Zoological Society of London (1881)
"Sheath of long spicules tri-laminar, consisting of fusiform cells, hyaline fibres, and in places gelatinous connective tissue. Development of globate ..."

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