Meanings of orbicular in English

It has a small somewhat triangular head, orbicular thorax, and large, round, flattened abdomen.

His mind, almost orbicular in its various capacity, took in the scene at a glance.

Utricularia orbiculata (India).-Theorbicular leaves and the stems bearing the bladders apparently float in water.

After a moment of thought, or what in his orbicular shining features he fancied passed for thought, he said,-

Lamarck separated the mother-of-pearls shell (MARGARITA) from the swallow-tail muscles (AVICULA) on account of its more orbicular shape.

A stout-growing shrub reaching in favourable situations a height of fully 6 feet, with broadly orbicular leaves placed on long stalks.

The world is spherical; the orbicular hath the pre-eminence above all other figures, for being round itself it hath its parts like itself.

The Suffet had collected his men into an orbicular mass, in such a way as to offer an equal resistance in every direction.

This shell is very like Cytherea loeta, but differs from it in its markings, as well as its outline, which is more orbicular.

Assuredly, fire is borne aloft, is without a soul, is easily quenchable and corruptible; but the sun is orbicular and animate, eternal and imperishable.

Empedocles, before the four elements, introduceth the most minute bodies which resemble elements; but they did exist before the elements, having similar parts and orbicular.

That it has an orbicular energy sometimes appearing over the earth, sometimes going under it, this he makes evident by saying (O. x.

The contraction of the lower orbiculars is always accompanied, as we have seen, by the drawing up of the upper lip.

'Well, will you look at that,' Aarfy marveled sonorously right beside Yossarian, his plump, orbicular face sparkling with a look of bright enchantment.

It has a small somewhat triangular head, orbicular thorax, and large, round, flattened abdomen.

His mind, almost orbicular in its various capacity, took in the scene at a glance.