Definitions for orbicular

orbicular or·bic·u·lar

Spelling: [awr-bik-yuh-ler]
IPA: /ɔrˈbɪk yə lər/

Orbicular is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 319 anagrams from letters in orbicular (abcilorru).

Definitions for orbicular

adjective

  1. like an orb; circular; ringlike; spherical; rounded.

Origin of orbicular

1375-1425; late Middle English Late Latin orbiculāris circular, equivalent to Latin orbicul(us) small disk (orbi(s) orb + -culus -cule1

Examples for orbicular

This mass was of a flattened, orbicular shape, and its surface coated with a green oxide.

If my observations were well taken it embraces, sparingly, orbicular masses of hornblende.

Medusa (aurita) orbicular, with four little hearts in the middle.

Some are flattened, others are orbicular or globose; in some the spiral is very pointed.

The response was given by the orbicular spirit, who had appeared to me.

Shields also are found; some oblong and oval, and some orbicular.

On its head by way of crest it has an orbicular protuberant horn.

In all forms there is variation in the stigmata, and in the orbicular especially.

The precipices on the east shore shot up into spiral points; yet the orbicular elevations are covered with grass and shrubbery.

orbicular, or Rotund (Fig. 132), circular in outline, or nearly so.

Word Value for orbicular
Scrable

13

Words with friends

17

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