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globoid
[ gloh-boid ]
adjective
- approximately globular.
noun
- a globoid figure or body.
globoid
/ ˈɡəʊɔɪ /
adjective
- shaped approximately like a globe
noun
- a globoid body, such as any of those occurring in certain plant granules
Other Word Forms
- ܲ·bǾ adjective
Example Sentences
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.
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.
Elongated Globoid Will not invert maltose.
S. cereviseae I. 30� 20�-28� High Rounded Globoid Inverts maltose and saccharose and form alcohol 4-6 vol.
High Elongated Globoid Inverts neither maltose nor saccharose.
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