单词 | globose |
释义 | globoseadj.n.ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > lack of shape > [adjective] huelessa1100 shapelessa1400 globose?a1425 deformed1555 fashionless1581 disformed1591 formless1591 unshapeful1598 figureless1606 informous1610 proportionless1625 unbodied1630 unshapable1630 misshapen1640 unshapeless1640 difform1644 inform1654 difformed1665 amorphous1727 amorphic1856 the world > matter > constitution of matter > other specific kinds of texture > [adjective] > full of lumps globose?a1425 clotty?1523 cloddy1547 cloddered1558 lumpy1707 lumpish1735 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 68v Þer went out grosse substaunce globose [?c1425 Paris clompry; L. globosa] and medularis & noȝt sanious. a1550 ( G. Ripley Compend of Alchemy (Bodl. e Mus.) f. 42v (MED) In the begyning when thow madest all of noughte, A globose matter & darke vnder confusione By the beginner marvelouslye was wroughte, Contayning materiallie all thing without devisione. 2. Having the form of a globe; completely or approximately spherical (cf. globous adj.). In early use also as n.: †a globe (obsolete).Now chiefly in scientific use. ovali-, semi-, ventricoso-globose, etc.: see first element. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > [adjective] > spherical or globular roundc1300 orbicular?1440 spherical1523 spheral1571 globous1591 globy1595 bulbed1597 orbed1598 sphery1600 spheric1610 globical1612 rotundious1614 globular1626 globed1633 global1637 globose1667 spheriform1678 globosous1681 globar1699 bulbous1783 ball-shaped1802 globate1806 perispheric1828 bulb-like1836 balloon-shaped1839 bulbiform1849 globuloid1889 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 357 First the Sun..he fram'd..then form'd the Moon Globose . View more context for this quotation 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost v. 753 All the Earth, And all the Sea, from one entire globose Stretcht into Longitude. View more context for this quotation 1707 Philos. Trans. 1706–7 (Royal Soc.) 25 2389 Two great Globose Tumors. 1758 R. Pultney in Philos. Trans. 1757 (Royal Soc.) 50 61 The fruit is a globose berry. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 94 It is then that the breasts assume a globose plumpness. 1874 E. Coues Birds Northwest 133 The egg is usually rather globose. 1932 R. Kipling Limits & Renewals 335 The contortions of a globose man labouring through unaccustomed exercise. 1986 Mountain Democrat (Placerville, Calif.) 29 Oct. c4/1 Agapanthus..has strappy leaves with globose clusters of blue flowers atop three foot stalks in mid-summer. 2001 Ann. Bot. 88 1065/1 In Alstroemeria there are numerous seeds per capsule ranging in diameter from 2–4 mm. They are yellowish-brown, tan or brown, globose or subglobose. Derivatives gloˈbosely adv. Botany and Zoology ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > [adverb] > spherically spherically1576 globously1653 globically1672 globosely1806 1806 H. C. Andrews Heathery II. facing Pl. 99 Blossom globosely cone-shaped, of a pale red purple, with the segments erect. 1920 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 72 4 The shell is minutely perforate, globosely conic, very fragile, light yellow. 2001 Systematic Bot. 26 787/1 These glands are..globosely shaped and excreting a clear yellow exudate. gloˈboseness n. chiefly Conchology (now rare) ΚΠ 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Globoseness, roundness in form, globular form. 1862 J. G. Jeffreys Brit. Conchol. I. 202 The shell is easily distinguishable from H. hispida by the globoseness of its form and greater height of the spire. 1928 Ecology 9 282 In the gastropods, Amnicola, Helisoma, Stagnicola, the result has been an increase in globoseness and a widening of the umbilical region. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.?a1425 |
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