obrotund

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adjective

Nearly but not completely round; roundish.

OriginLatin obrotundus →
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Meanings

adjectiveobrotund (not comparable)
  1. literarynot comparablerareNearly 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

Origin

  1. Latinobrotundus“somewhat round”
  2. Englishobrotund

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

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Chicago

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