Sunday, November 22, 2015

Word of the Day

globular
\GLOB-yuh-ler\
adjective
1. globe-shaped; spherical.
2. composed of or having globules.

Quotes
One could almost see the globular lobes of his brain painfully revolving and crushing and mangling the delicate thing.
-- , Joseph Conrad to Edward Garnett, February 13, 1897, in The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad, 1983

Origin
Globular finds its roots in the Latin term globus meaning "round body, sphere." It came to English in the 1600s.

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