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globoid, a. and n.|ˈgləʊbɔɪd| [f. globe n. + -oid.] A. adj. Of approximately globular form.
1887Pop. Sci. Monthly XXX. 324 These bush-retreats of the mice were all distinctly globular, or globoid. B. n. Bot. (See quots.)
1875Bennett & Dyer Sachs' Bot. 52 Non-crystalline, roundish, or clustered granules, known as Globoids. These are a double calcium and magnesium phosphate, in which the latter base is greatly in excess. 1885G. L. Goodale Physiol. Bot. (1892) 47 Amorphous or globular concretions..known as globoids. |