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globular

[glob-yuh-ler] / ˈglɒb yə lər /


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"He had a lot of edema, his face was very swollen, there was edema on his limbs, and a globular abdomen, like a balloon."

From Barron's • Apr. 23, 2026

Another was Cyttaria dawinii, a small globular parasitic fungus collected by Charles Darwin in the Tierra del Fuego archipelago in South America during the HMS Beagle voyage between 1831 and 1836.

From BBC • May 18, 2025

Sporting globular dark eyes and fuzzy, caramel-colored fur, the baby ochi — a physical puppet that has been likened to a Gremlin and Baby Yoda — is quite cute.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2025

Scrawls of crude graffiti or quickly penciled notes left by workmen emulate the tendril-like lines dragged through Wool’s globular masses of spray paint.

From New York Times • May 2, 2024

Shapley discovered that the globular clusters were not centered around the solar neighborhood but rather about a distant region of the Milky Way, in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius, the Archer.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan




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