Adjective : a roundish man; roundish furniture. From Dictionary.com.
The short "roundish" legs finished, they had still to make the head. From Wordnik.com. [Four Little Blossoms and Their Winter Fun] Reference
Bulb roundish, flattened on the upper side, but not so much so as the. From Wordnik.com. [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference
The fruit is of a roundish oval shape, and is of a dark-purple colour. From Wordnik.com. [Fruits of Queensland] Reference
Good cropper of roundish nuts, having short open husks and good clean kernels. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting Pleasant Valley, New York, August 28, 29 and 30, 1950] Reference
He pointed to a low aperture in one corner of the roundish space in which they stood. From Wordnik.com. [Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2] Reference
Two to 6 roundish nuts in long closed husks free of prickles so common on wild hazels. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting Pleasant Valley, New York, August 28, 29 and 30, 1950] Reference
Very large roundish thick shelled nut with a kernel of good quality if you can get it. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association, report of the proceedings at the eighth annual meeting Stamford, Connecticut, September 5 and 6, 1917] Reference
All three are roundish, but the King is somewhat oval-round, and the Spy, conical-round. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference
Fructification: the internal mass or contents separating into roundish or lenticular gonidia. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883] Reference
Nuts 1/2 inch in diameter, moderate shell of roundish form, well filled, with good flavor, clean kernels. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting Pleasant Valley, New York, August 28, 29 and 30, 1950] Reference
Oysters are larger than clams and have a rough, uneven shell, whereas clams have a smooth, roundish shell. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 3: Soup; Meat; Poultry and Game; Fish and Shell Fish] Reference
This is a very small variety of the Early Silver-skin, with a small, occasionally roundish, but generally oblate bulb. From Wordnik.com. [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference
Both these types have thick shelled roundish nuts which are hard to get out of the husks, and so far have many blank nuts. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting Pleasant Valley, New York, August 28, 29 and 30, 1950] Reference
A medium-sized, roundish, or flattened onion; neck small; skin yellowish-brown, -- next interior layer not tinged with red. From Wordnik.com. [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference
I like the Patterson the best of these -- it is a roundish nut that cracks quite well and the kernels are on the sweet side. 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
Fruit large, often very large, 3½ inches wide and 3 inches to 4 inches high, roundish obovate, uneven, and bossed in its outline. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889] Reference
It is usually of an irregular roundish shape, very full of seeds, which are surrounded by a custard-like pulp of very pleasant flavour. From Wordnik.com. [Fruits of Queensland] Reference
A large, white, roundish, English potato, not unlike the variety universally known and cultivated many years since in this country as the. From Wordnik.com. [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference
Urticaria is characterized by roundish elevations that appear quickly and become scattered over a part or the whole surface of the skin. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
Of course, at a distance, any form is likely to look round or roundish: but we point out that we have notes upon the seeming of more complex forms. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Damned] Reference
Careful examination shows that the chlorophyll is confined to several roundish bodies that are not usually in immediate contact with the wall of the cell. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses] Reference
John Aubrey, who knew him personally, thus describes him: 'He was of a middling stature, pretty strong set, roundish cherry-checked, hazle-eyed, brown-haired.'. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference
'There are roundish roots,' he says, 'some the size of a walnut, some much bigger; these hang together on the other roots, and are good either boiled or roasted.'. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
He was a short, rather roundish man, who was forever thankful that the Twentieth Century predictions of skin-tight uniforms for the Space Service had never come true. From Wordnik.com. [Cum Grano Salis] Reference
On some of the plants these cavities are filled with an orange-yellow mass; in others there are a number of roundish olive-brown bodies large enough to be easily seen. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses] Reference
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