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| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
| Class II. Words Relating to Space |
| Section III. Form |
| 2. Special Form |
| 249. Rotundity. |
| NOUN: | ROTUNDITY; roundness &c. adj.; cylindricity; sphericality, sphericity, spheroidicity or spheroidity, globoseness, globosity, globularity, annularity, orotundity, orbiculation. CYLINDER, cylindroid; barrel, drum; roll, roller; rouleau, column, rolling-pin, rundle. CONE, conoid; pear-shape, egg-shape, bell-shape. SPHERE, globe, ball, bowlder or boulder; spheroid, geoid, globoid, ellipsoid; oblong -, oblate- spheroid; drop, spherule, globule, vesicle, bulb, bullet, pellet, clew, pill, marble, pea, knob, pommel, horn, knot; oval [See Circularity]. |
| VERB: | RENDER SPHERICAL &c. adj.; form into a sphere, sphere, roll into a ball; give rotundity &c. n.; round. |
| ADJECTIVE: | ROTUND; round (circular) [See Circularity]; cylindric or cylindrical, cylindroid or cylindroidal, columnar, vermiform, lumbriciform; conic, conical; spherical, spheroidal; globular, globous, globose; gibbous; fungiform, bulbous; teres atque rotundus [L.]; round as -an orange, - an apple, - a ball, - a billiard ball, - a cannon ball. BEAD-SHAPED, beadlike, moniliform, monilated. BELL-SHAPED, campaniform, campanulate, campanulous, campanular. EGG-SHAPED, ovoid, oviform, ovoidal, ovate, globoid, globate or globated; obovate, obovoid [both bot.]. PEAR-SHAPED, pyriform. RICE-SHAPED, riziform. |
| QUOTATION: | She is spherical, like a globe.—Comedy of Errors |
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