globose, a.
(gləʊˈbəʊs)
[ad. L. globōs-us, f. globus globe; cf. OF. globeux, globous.]
Having the form of a globe; completely or approximately spherical. Now only in scientific use.
| c 1475 in 11th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. III. (1887) 15 In the begynnynge when thow made all of nowght, A globose mater, and derke undur confusion. 1667 Milton P.L. vii. 357 First the Sun..he framd..then formd the Moon Globose. 1707 Phil. Trans. XXV. 2389 Two great Globose Tumors. 1757 Pultney ibid. L. 61 The fruit is a globose berry. 1807 Crabbe Par. Reg. i. 140 The leek, with crown globose and reedy stem. 1822–34 Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) IV. 74 It is then that the breasts assume a globose plumpness. 1874 Coues Birds N.W. 133 The egg is usually rather globose. |
| absol. (quasi-n.) 1667 Milton P.L. v. 753 All the Earth, And all the Sea, from one entire globose Stretcht into Longitude. |
Hence
gloˈbosely adv.,
gloˈboseness.
| 1727 Bailey, Globoseness. 1840 Paxton Bot. Dict., Globosely-elliptical, between spherical and oval. 1854 Woodward Mollusca ii. 162 Helix Pomatia..Shell..globosely depressed or conoidal. 1880 Watson in Jrnl. Linn. Soc. XV. No. 82. 98 Shell—globosely conical. |