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Ball-shaped   /bɔl-ʃeɪpt/   Listen
Ball-shaped

adjective
1.
Having the shape of a sphere or ball.  Synonyms: global, globose, globular, orbicular, spheric, spherical.  "Nearly orbicular in shape" , "Little globular houses like mud-wasp nests"






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"Ball-shaped" Quotes from Famous Books



... like Seaton's. I know they had one, and they've probably built more of them since that time. Their airships can't touch us, but those ball-shaped cruisers would be pure poison for us, the way we are fixed now. Can you see any ...
— Skylark Three • Edward Elmer Smith

... observe the feathery tamarind, orange, lime, alligator-pear, citron-fig, date, and rose apple. Of all the flowering trees, the most conspicuous and attractive is one which bears a cloud of brilliant scarlet blossoms, each cluster ball-shaped and as large as a Florida orange. Some of the thoroughfares are lined by pretty, low-built cottages, standing a few rods back from the roadway, with broad, inviting verandas, the whole festooned and nearly hidden by tropical and semi-tropical plants in full bloom. If we drive out to ...
— Foot-prints of Travel - or, Journeyings in Many Lands • Maturin M. Ballou



Words linked to "Ball-shaped" :   round, circular



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