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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

obrotund en · ADJ

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin obrotundus (“somewhat round”), from ob- (“towards; against”) + rotundus. Analyzeable as ob- + rotund.

Meanings

  1. (literary, not-comparable, rare) Nearly but not completely round; roundish.
    • It is a minute, perhaps juvenile shell, ten millimetres in length, obrotund, thin, not nacreous, equivalve, brown, hinge without teeth; foot rudimentary; fixed to rocks by a byssus. 1882, George W[ashington] Tryon Jr., Structural and Systematic Conchology: An Introduction to the Study of the Mollusca, volume I, page 268:

Relateds

elliptical · obround