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orbicular [ȯr′bik·yə·lər] (petrology) Of the structure of a rock, containing large quantities of orbicules. (science and technology) Having the form of a sphere or orb. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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But the artist's signature creatures--with their spindly limbs, androgynous bodies, orbicular green heads, and brutal group antics--have mostly given way to a new race whose violently pink skins and hieratic placement on the paper seem to speak less about the ghastly comedy of societal cruelty and more about the eerie isolation of individuals. They too employ rituals, charms, and other means, however, to intervene in the abiku's orbicular death, including having the incarnate child wear "[p]rotective bracelets and anklets and bells" (Parrinder 98). From a description of the garden in 1623 as "circular, triangular, quadrangular, orbicular [and] oval,"(85) it seems that the garden was geometric and rectilinear. |
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