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How to pronounce globose in English?

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Synonyms ball-shaped, global, globular, orbicular, spheric, spherical
Derivation globosity

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The fruit are globose in shape, around 5 mm long, inside are shiny black seeds.
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The seeds of Sugar Maple are globose, while Norway Maple seeds are flattened.
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In the Mimosoideae, the flowers are actinomorphic and arranged in globose inflorescences.
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The asci are globose, pear shaped and released by irregular disintegration of the wall of cleistothecium.
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The cones are squat globose, 10-12 cm long and 12-14 cm diameter, and take about 18 months to mature.
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The cap changes from globose to hemispherical, and finally to plate-like and flat in mature specimens.
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This form is similar to the natural multistem, globose shape of the oleander, but is pruned to have a more narrow base.
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The female cones, usually high on the top of the tree, are globose, and vary in size between species from 7-25 cm diameter.
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They are globose when emergent and then become a broad convex as they mature, with the centre of the cap slightly depressed.
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More examples
  • Ball-shaped: having the shape of a sphere or ball; "a spherical object"; "nearly orbicular in shape"; "little globular houses like mud-wasp nests"- Zane Grey
  • (globosity) sphericity: the roundness of a 3-dimensional object
  • A sphere (from Greek u03C3u03C6u03B1u1FD6u03C1u03B1 u2014 sphaira, "globe, ball") is a perfectly round geometrical object in three-dimensional space that is the surface of a completely round ball, (viz., analogous to a circular object in two dimensions)...
  • Having a globular form
  • Nearly spherical; globular, e.g. the seeds of Cycas siamensis or the pseudocone of Cycas panzhihuanensis.
  • Of the fruit, somewhat globular in shape [image]
  • Globe shaped; rounded or shaped like a ball.
  • Roughly ball-shaped or spherical, applied to the body form of some cactus species.
  • Spherical or close to it. The fruit of Passiflora maliformis is globose.