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Definition of Orbicularly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Orbicularly
Literary usage of Orbicularly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales by Linnean Society of New South Wales (1877)
"Shell umbilicated, flatly orbicularly depressed, very closely and finely striated,
... Shell umbilicated, rather flatly orbicularly depressed; thin, glossy, ..."
2. The Gardeners Dictionary: Containing the Methods of Cultivating and ...by Philip Miller by Philip Miller (1754)
"... are placed orbicularly, and expand in farm of a Rofe ; out of ... are placed
orbicularly, and expand in form of a Rofe ..."
3. The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales by Linnean Society of New South Wales (1877)
"Shell umbilicated, flatly orbicularly depressed, very closely and finely striated
... Shell umbilicated, rather flatly orbicularly depressed ; thin, glossy, ..."
4. Structural and Systematic Conchology: An Introduction to the Study of the by George Washington Tryon (1884)
"Shell perforate, orbicularly convex; obliquely rugose-striate; brownish red,
often banded; whorls 4i-5, the last descending; aperture ovate; peristome white ..."
5. Structural and Systematic Conchology: An Introduction to the Study of the by George Washington Tryon (1882)
"Shell with open (rarely covered) umbilicus, orbicularly depressed; spire plane
or immersed in the middle; whorls 4-5, the last large, declining in front; ..."
6. Elements of conchology by Lovell Reeve (1860)
"Shell ; globose or orbicularly depressed ... The form of shell which it includes,
namely, all that arc globose or orbicularly depressed, embraces about ..."
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