Definition of Roundish

1. Adjective. Somewhat round in appearance or form.

Similar to: Circular, Round

Definition of Roundish

1. a. Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure.

Definition of Roundish

1. Adjective. Somewhat round. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Roundish

1. somewhat round [adj]

Medical Definition of Roundish

1. Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure. Round"ishness. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Roundish

roundheel
roundheels
roundhouse
roundhouse kick
roundhouse kicks
roundhoused
roundhouses
roundhousing
rounding
rounding down
rounding error
rounding off
rounding out
rounding up
roundings
roundish (current term)
roundishly
roundishness
roundle
roundles
roundlet
roundlets
roundly
roundness
roundnesses
roundoff
roundpole fence
roundridge
rounds
rounds down

Literary usage of Roundish

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

1. The Apples of New York by Spencer Ambrose Beach, Nathaniel Ogden Booth, Orrin Morehouse Taylor (1905)
"Form spreading or roundish and rather dense. Tii'igs moderately long, curved, ... Form roundish to roundish oblate, sometimes a little inclined to conic, ..."

2. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"Sori roundish, minute, naked, placed on the ... sonis by a short central stalk, or roundish-reniform and attached at the base of the sinus or indentation. ..."

3. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1837)
"The nuts are roundish and very 2. C. rostrata, the horned hazel-nut. In this the branches are quite free from glandular ..."

4. The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America: Or, The Culture, Propagation, and by Andrew Jackson Downing (1845)
"Fruit quite large, angular or one-sided, generally flat, it occasionally roundish-oblong. Skin fine deep red, with int, indistinct streaks of yellow, ..."

5. The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America: Or, The Culture, Propagation, and by Andrew Jackson Downing, E. Lewis ; gift of Sturtevant (1856)
"Fruit quite large, angular or one-sided, generally flat, but occasionally roundish-oblong. Skin fine deep red, with faint, indistinct streaks of yellow, ..."

6. Hortus Jamaicensis, Or, A Botanical Description, (according to the Linnean by John Lunan (1814)
"... smaller, two alternate lateral very large and roundish, representing the lower lip ; uppermost small, two-parted ; the stamen a membranaceous filament, ..."

7. The Cultivator by New York State Agricultural Society (1848)
"It is large, roundish, slightly conical, obscurely ribbed, very fair and smooth, ... It is medium or rather large in size, roundish-conical, often slightly ..."

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