Meaning & use
globular
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Shaped like a globe or ball; rounded.
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The plant produces small, globular seed pods in late summer.
Astronomers photographed a dense, globular cluster of thousands of stars.
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Globular commonly appears in scientific contexts, such as 'globular cluster' in astronomy or 'globular protein' in biology.
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