globular
adjective/ˈɡlɑbjələr/
Frequency rank: #17,264 most common English word
Meaning
roughly spherical or globe-shaped in form.
Example sentence
The astronomer pointed her telescope toward globular clusters of stars near the edge of our galaxy.
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