semi-globe
[semi- 7 a.]
The half of a globe; a hemisphere or hemispherical form, structure, etc.
| 1748 Anson's Voy. iii. ii. 312 A semi-globe, with the flat part upwards. 1776 G. Semple Building in Water 142, I do not..determine, whether Semi-globes, or common square Lamps, will prove most commodious. 1792 A. Young Trav. France I. 17 The hills..swell in beautiful semi-globes. 1867 G. F. Chambers Astron. vi. vi. 550 Diodorus conceived it [sc. the Milky Way] to be a dense celestial fire, shewing itself through the clefts of the starting and dividing semi-globes. 1875 Brash Eccl. Archit. Irel. 43 The next order is enriched with a line of semiglobes. |
So
semi-ˈglobose,
-ˈglobular adjs., of the form of a semi-globe or hemisphere.
| 1721 Bailey, *Semiglobular, of the Form of half a Globe. |
| 1818 Kirby & Sp. Entomol. vi. (ed. 3) I. 199 The red *semi⁓globose bodies of the gravid females. 1822 J. Parkinson Outl. Oryctol. 100 The central semiglobular ventricular cavity. Ibid. 159 A semiglobose univalve. 1891 T. Hardy Tess xlii, The irregular chalk table-land or plateau, bosomed with semi-globular tumuli. |