globular — English Dictionary

Adjective

1. Roughly spherical in shape; globe-shaped.

   Examples

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   "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.[…]"

   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.

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

2. Comprising globules.

Noun

1. A globular cluster

Adjective

1. having the shape of a sphere or ball

   Synonyms

   ball-shapedglobalgloboseorbicularsphericspherical

   Examples

   a spherical object

   nearly orbicular in shape