globular

From French globulaire.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlɑb.jə.lɚ/

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globular (comparative more globular, superlative most globular)

1. Roughly spherical in shape; globe-shaped.
   • 1906, O. Henry, A Cosmopolite in a Café:

     "Nary a spot," interrupted E. R. Coglan, flippantly. "The terrestrial, globular, planetary hunk of matter, slightly flattened at the poles, and known as the Earth, is my abode.

   • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 148:

     Podson's globular stare assured any woman that the bargain was sacred. It was solemn, intent, opaque; it was also slightly mesmeric, which is to say that it gave out everything and took in nothing.

   • 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:

     Globular lights, painted a dark green, hang from under the fancy iron eaves, unlit for centuries...

2. Comprising globules.

• globular lightning
• globularly
• globularness

• globe
• globose
• globous
• globule

globular (plural globulars)

1. (astronomy) A globular cluster

globular m or f (plural globulares)

1. spherical; globular

   Synonym: esférico

Borrowed from French globulaire.

globular m or n (feminine singular globulară, masculine plural globulari, feminine and neuter plural globulare)

1. globular

• IPA^(key): /ɡlobuˈlaɾ/ [ɡlo.β̞uˈlaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: glo‧bu‧lar

globular m or f (masculine and feminine plural globulares)

1. globular

• “globular”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014