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globoid

[ gloh-boid ]

adjective

  1. approximately globular.


noun

  1. a globoid figure or body.

globoid

/ ˈɡ±ôəʊ²úɔɪ»å /

adjective

  1. shaped approximately like a globe
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. a globoid body, such as any of those occurring in certain plant granules
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ²õ³Ü²ú·²µ±ô´Çb´Ç¾±»å adjective
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of globoid1

First recorded in 1870–75; globe + -oid
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When he taught geometry, Ms. Roberts reports, he pulled up his shirt and used his own globoid belly to illustrate the mathematical notion of curvature.

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Another scientist, backed by his boss at the Rockefeller Institute in New York, claimed to have identified the polio virus in some "globoid bodies" in 1913 and diverted medicine down the wrong track for two decades, until the objects were revealed as harmless globules of fat.

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S. cereviseae I. 30� 20�-28� High Rounded Globoid Inverts maltose and saccharose and form alcohol 4-6 vol.

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Elongated Globoid Will not invert maltose.

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High Elongated Globoid Inverts neither maltose nor saccharose.

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