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- English Word Globe-shaped Definition Shaped like a globe.
- English Word Globed Definition of Globe
- English Word Globefish Definition A plectognath fish of the genera Diodon, Tetrodon, and allied genera. The globefishes can suck in water or air and distend the body to a more or less globular form. Called also porcupine fish, and sea hedgehog. See Diodon.
- English Word Globeflower Definition A plant of the genus Trollius (T. Europaeus), found in the mountainous parts of Europe, and producing handsome globe-shaped flowers.
- English Word Globeflower Definition The American plant Trollius laxus.
- English Word Globiferous Definition Having a round or globular tip.
- English Word Globigerin/ Definition of Globigerina
- English Word Globigerina Definition A genus of small Foraminifera, which live abundantly at or near the surface of the sea. Their dead shells, falling to the bottom, make up a large part of the soft mud, generally found in depths below 3,000 feet, and called globigerina ooze. See Illust. of Foraminifera.
- English Word Globing Definition of Globe
- English Word Globose Definition Having a rounded form resembling that of a globe; globular, or nearly so; spherical.
- English Word Globosely Definition In a globular manner; globularly.
- English Word Globosity Definition Sphericity.
- English Word Globous Definition Spherical.
- English Word Globular Definition Globe-shaped; having the form of a ball or sphere; spherical, or nearly so; as, globular atoms.
- English Word Globularity Definition The state of being globular; globosity; sphericity.
- English Word Globularly Definition Spherically.
- English Word Globularness Definition Sphericity; globosity.
- English Word Globule Definition A little globe; a small particle of matter, of a spherical form.
- English Word Globule Definition A minute spherical or rounded structure; as blood, lymph, and pus corpuscles, minute fungi, spores, etc.
- English Word Globule Definition A little pill or pellet used by homeopathists.
- English Word Globulet Definition A little globule.
- English Word Globuliferous Definition Bearing globules; in geology, used of rocks, and denoting a variety of concretionary structure, where the concretions are isolated globules and evenly distributed through the texture of the rock.
- English Word Globulimeter Definition An instrument for measuring the number of red blood corpuscles in the blood.
- English Word Globulin Definition An albuminous body, insoluble in water, but soluble in dilute solutions of salt. It is present in the red blood corpuscles united with haematin to form haemoglobin. It is also found in the crystalline lens of the eye, and in blood serum, and is sometimes called crystallin. In the plural the word is applied to a group of proteid substances such as vitellin, myosin, fibrinogen, etc., all insoluble in water, but soluble in dilute salt solutions.
- English Word Globulite Definition A rudimentary form of crystallite, spherical in shape.
- English Word Globulous Definition Globular; spherical; orbicular.
- English Word Globy Definition Resembling, or pertaining to, a globe; round; orbicular.
- English Word Glochidia Definition of Glochidium
- English Word Glochidiate Definition Having barbs; as, glochidiate bristles.
- English Word Glochidium Definition The larva or young of the mussel, formerly thought to be a parasite upon the parent's gills.