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词汇 orbicular
释义 orbicular
adjective
uk /ɔːˈbɪk.jə.lər/ us /ɔːrˈbɪk.jə.lɚ/
formal
round, like a ball: 球形的,球状的
It is known for its large orbicular seedheads.
The height and length of the small oysters are approximately the same, resulting in an orbicular shape.
Synonym
spherical
biology specialized
An orbicular leaf is shaped like a circle:
It is a low-growing perennial, making clumps of dark green, orbicular leaves.
The orbicular leaves are smooth and often shiny.
anatomy specialized
surrounding a round body part or opening:
Only one ligament is found here, the orbicular ligament or annular ligament of the elbow joint.
The orbicular muscle of the eye causes the eyelids to contract.
geology specialized
Orbicular rock consists of layers of ball-shaped pieces of rock:
In many orbicular rocks, more than one type of core exists.
Orbicular granitoid rocks are very rare geological phenomena.
Marine scientists captured a pair of orbicular batfish.
It has orbicular leaves on long stalks lying flat on the ground.
The formation of orbicular structures implies crystal growth around solid cores.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Geometrical shapes
-cornered
circularly
congruently
conic
cylindrically
lozenge
ovally
ovoid
parallelogram
pentagon
polyhedron
polytope
prism
pyramid
pyramidical
quadrilateral
rectangle
rectangular
rhombus
three-dimensional

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Parts of plants
Substances & structures in the body
Geology: types of rock

Examples of orbicular


orbicular
They start to occur along an approximately straight line without any definable contact between country rock granite and the matrix of the orbicular rock.
It is not known whether the two outcrops belong to one single body of orbicular rock or to two different bodies.
At the southern outcrop, a few metres of the contact between the orbicular rock and the country rock granite are exposed.
The orbicular rock is grey to dark grey; in places the matrix has a reddish shade.
Beneath them was a carpet of sheep-sorrel, its orbicular perianth being slightly depressed by their healthy weight.
The diorites exhibit primary igneous features (including local orbicular structures) and show no penetrative deformational overprint.
The rock having the highest liquidus temperature seems to be the orbicular rock itself, together with mafic schlieren and small amounts of a biotite-rich rock.
The poor degree of exposure does not permit observations of how the orbicular rock is located in relation to possible contacts.
Persson (1989) mapped the area recently, but did not specifically investigate the orbicular rock.
The pitcher lid or operculum is roughly orbicular, subcordate, and around 2.5 cm long by 2.5 cm wide.
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The canopy of the tree is dense and rounded and the leaves are elliptical to orbicular.
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The pitcher lid or operculum is orbicular to broadly ovate.
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Two small outcrops of a biotiterich, foliated, rather mafic rock are found close to the orbicular rock.
They create a depressed orbicular case consisting of two pieces of the same size.
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It has a 4 segmented antennae, small eyes, and has hairs on the head, mesosoma, and petiole that are mostly scale-like or orbicular.
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