The Collaborative International Dictionary
Suborbicular
Suborbicular \Sub`or*bic"u*lar\, Suborbiculate \Sub`or*bic"u*late\, a. Almost orbiculate or orbicular.
Wiktionary
suborbicular
a. Almost orbicular.
Usage examples of "suborbicular".
They are fleshy shrubs, with rounded, woody stems, and numerous succulent branches, composed in most of the species of separate joints or parts, which are much compressed, often elliptic or suborbicular, dotted over in spiral lines with small, fleshy, caducous leaves, in the axils of which are placed the areoles or tufts of barbed or hooked spines of two forms.