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globular

/ˈglɑbjələr/
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Other forms: globularly

Something that's globular is round or spherical, like the big, globular heads your little brother adds when he's molding little people out of clay.

Globular, "globe-shaped," comes from the Latin globus, "round mass or sphere." This adjective shows up a lot in scientific writing, including to describe a rounded mass of stars bound together by gravity — a globular cluster, or in astronomy shorthand, a globular. Strictly speaking, anything that's round is globular, from a tennis ball to the moon.

Definitions of globular
  1. adjective
    having the shape of a sphere or ball
    “"little globular houses like mud-wasp nests"- Zane Grey”
    circular, round
    having a circular shape
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