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Definition of Suborbicular
1. a. Almost orbiculate or orbicular.
Definition of Suborbicular
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Suborbicular
Literary usage of Suborbicular
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Flora of Western Middle California by Willis Linn Jepson (1901)
"ovary tomentose or conspicuously woolly; fruit suborbicular, 4 or 5 posed of
several ovate or lanceolate more or less united bractlets; lines long and ..."
2. Supplement to the English Botany of the Late Sir J. E. Smith and Mr. Sowerby by Sir William Jackson Hooker, James Sowerby, William Borrer, John William Salter (1849)
"... from it by the suborbicular leaves, the presence of stipules, and the immersed
perianth. J.pumila, With., has ovate leaves and a lanceolate plicate ..."
3. Entomologia Edinensis: Or A Description and History of the Insects Found in by James Wilson, James Duncan (1834)
"... ovate : maxillary palpi with the terminal joint slender and somewhat clavate:
body elongate, rather thick : be.-d suborbicular : abdomen margined ..."
4. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"Low shrub with slender, often reclining branches, usually more or less bristly
and with spines about J^in. long, sometimes nearly wanting: Ivs. suborbicular ..."
5. New Manual of Botany of the Central Rocky Mountains (vascular Plants) by John Merle Coulter (1909)
"A puberulent perennial 5-10 dm. high: leaves long-petioled; the lower suborbicular,
dentate, 5-10 cm. broad; the upper oblong-lanceolate, ..."
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