orbicular
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She needs to squeeze them tighter to demonstrate the strength she has in the orbicular oculi.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
Product of a two-year study directed by Brookings' president, orbicular Harold Glenn Moulton, it broke no new argumentative ground, offered no new documentation for economists.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Well, will you look at that,” Aarfy marveled sonorously right beside Yossarian, his plump, orbicular face sparkling with a look of bright enchantment.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
Leaves round or ovate, crenate-toothed, the floral somewhat similar; calyx-lobes oblong; flower small; ovary many-ovuled, but the nearly orbicular and sharply notched capsule 1–2 seeded.—Sandy fields, N. Brunswick to La., near the coast.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
The eggs of this shell, contained in a transparent orbicular nidus, the size of a turtle's egg, were found thrown up on the sea-beach of the island.
From Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 by Robert Fitzroy
