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Definition of Roundish
1. Adjective. Somewhat round in appearance or form.
Definition of Roundish
1. a. Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure.
Definition of Roundish
1. Adjective. Somewhat round. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Roundish
1. somewhat round [adj]
Medical Definition of Roundish
1. Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure. Round"ishness. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Roundish
Literary usage of Roundish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Apples of New York by Spencer Ambrose Beach, Nathaniel Ogden Booth, Orrin Morehouse Taylor (1905)
"Form spreading or roundish and rather dense. Tii'igs moderately long, curved,
... Form roundish to roundish oblate, sometimes a little inclined to conic, ..."
2. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"Sori roundish, minute, naked, placed on the ... sonis by a short central stalk,
or roundish-reniform and attached at the base of the sinus or indentation. ..."
3. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1837)
"The nuts are roundish and very 2. C. rostrata, the horned hazel-nut. In this the
branches are quite free from glandular ..."
4. The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America: Or, The Culture, Propagation, and by Andrew Jackson Downing (1845)
"Fruit quite large, angular or one-sided, generally flat, it occasionally
roundish-oblong. Skin fine deep red, with int, indistinct streaks of yellow, ..."
5. The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America: Or, The Culture, Propagation, and by Andrew Jackson Downing, E. Lewis ; gift of Sturtevant (1856)
"Fruit quite large, angular or one-sided, generally flat, but occasionally
roundish-oblong. Skin fine deep red, with faint, indistinct streaks of yellow, ..."
6. Hortus Jamaicensis, Or, A Botanical Description, (according to the Linnean by John Lunan (1814)
"... smaller, two alternate lateral very large and roundish, representing the lower
lip ; uppermost small, two-parted ; the stamen a membranaceous filament, ..."
7. The Cultivator by New York State Agricultural Society (1848)
"It is large, roundish, slightly conical, obscurely ribbed, very fair and smooth,
... It is medium or rather large in size, roundish-conical, often slightly ..."
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