Indusium orbicular, fixed by its depressed center. From Wordnik.com. [The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada] Reference
Fronds linear, smooth, pinnæ deltoid or orbicular. From Wordnik.com. [The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada] Reference
The Suffet had collected his men into an orbicular mass, in such. From Wordnik.com. [Salammbo] Reference
Grain is orbicular to ovate, concavo-convex, red-brown, and transversely rugose. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
Type E-- A fat globose nut, broadly oval to orbicular in cross section (Fig. 6e). From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953] Reference
His mind, almost orbicular in its various capacity, took in the scene at a glance. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859] Reference
The grain is 1/12 by 1/16 inch orbicular oblong, compressed, smooth and pale brown. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
The grain is orbicular, ventrally furrowed and enclosed by the polished hard bract. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
There is another tree with orbicular leaves in pairs, which grows to an immense size. From Wordnik.com. [Unbeaten Tracks in Japan] Reference
The leaves are extremely varied, from deeply cordate to almost orbicular, 4-20 cm long, opposite or alternate. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 37] Reference
The grain is orbicular, compressed, channelled at the back and enclosed within the stony, hardened and polished bract. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
Fore wings rectangular at the tips; exterior border slightly bent; its fore part not oblique; orbicular and reniform marks indistinct. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference
The world is spherical; the orbicular hath the pre-eminence above all other figures, for being round itself it hath its parts like itself. From Wordnik.com. [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference
Fore wings acute; orbicular mark black, punctiform; reniform narrow, brown, bordered, excavated on the outer side; exterior border slightly convex. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference
Assuredly, fire is borne aloft, is without a soul, is easily quenchable and corruptible; but the sun is orbicular and animate, eternal and imperishable. From Wordnik.com. [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference
Pinnæ sub-opposite, divergent, narrowly oblong, obtuse; base truncate, cordate or clasping, occasionally auricled; lower pinnæ often with orbicular or cordate pinnules. From Wordnik.com. [The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada] Reference
Empedocles, before the four elements, introduceth the most minute bodies which resemble elements; but they did exist before the elements, having similar parts and orbicular. From Wordnik.com. [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference
It is nearly orbicular, or reniform, and 1 -- 5 cm. From Wordnik.com. [Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.] Reference
Its leaf is longer, its cone usually more orbicular and the prickle weaker. From Wordnik.com. [The Genus Pinus] Reference
(Fig. 207.) Shell orbicular, inequilateral, with radiating sulci, becoming. From Wordnik.com. [Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds] Reference
They have a nearly orbicular shape and are very sharply set off against their stalk. From Wordnik.com. [Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation] Reference
Neale thinks it was originally circular or orbicular worship, which he deems oldest. From Wordnik.com. [Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene] Reference
A furious tug at the bell brought down the silken rope and brought up an orbicular footman. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches — Volume 02] Reference
It has a small somewhat triangular head, orbicular thorax, and large, round, flattened abdomen. From Wordnik.com. [Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses] Reference
Calyx superior, with 5 small teeth and a deciduous cover composed of many orbicular pieces joined below. From Wordnik.com. [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference
With one last touch of humanity, I turned the orbicular ivory plate towards him and struck him to the earth. From Wordnik.com. [The War of the Wenuses] Reference
After a moment of thought, or what in his orbicular shining features he fancied passed for thought, he said. From Wordnik.com. [Homeward Bound or, the Chase] Reference
The whole orbicular World hangs by a golden chain from that part of the battlements of Heaven whence the angels fell. From Wordnik.com. [Milton] Reference
Shell orbicular, nearly eqilateral, smooth and radiately striated; hinge with a semi-circular row of transverse teeth. From Wordnik.com. [Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds] Reference
This I do not take to have been a Grecian word; but the name of a sacred orbicular mount, analogous to the Touphas of Persis. From Wordnik.com. [A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.)] Reference
Finally, in the persistence of motion in the orbicular muscle of the lids after division of the branches of the seventh nerve. From Wordnik.com. [With Sabre and Scalpel. The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon] Reference
Shell thick, orbicular, with its surface composed of plates or lamina; in the flat valve the plates are crenulated or plaited. From Wordnik.com. [Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds] Reference
Some say his mother was delivered of him in an house of an orbicular or round form in Covent-garden; but of this we are not certain. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great] Reference
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