globular
Collocations
5ADJ.
assured, behind, painted, planetary, terrestrial
VERB + GLOBULAR
hiding
GLOBULAR + NOUN
cluster, clusters, hunk, structures
PREP.
in
ADV.
flippantly
Definitions
adj
Roughly spherical in shape; globe-shaped.
"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.
Comprising globules.
noun
A globular cluster
Thesaurus
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
6"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.[…]"
WiktionaryPodson'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.
WiktionaryGlobular lights, painted a dark green, hang from under the fancy iron eaves, unlit for centuries . . .
WiktionaryThey're globular structures that tend to knit together, forming large clots.
Tatoeba · #10474329A team of astronomers accidentally discovered a previously unseen dwarf galaxy hiding behind a globular star cluster.
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