orbicular

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She needs to squeeze them tighter to demonstrate the strength she has in the orbicular oculi.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

Product of a two-year study directed by Brookings' president, orbicular Harold Glenn Moulton, it broke no new argumentative ground, offered no new documentation for economists.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Well, will you look at that,” Aarfy marveled sonorously right beside Yossarian, his plump, orbicular face sparkling with a look of bright enchantment.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

Aperture nearly orbicular, slightly angulated at the top of the inner lip.

From Zoological Illustrations, Volume II or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals by Swainson, William

Style very short, inversely conical, nearly immersed in the depressed summit of the globular ovary; stigma broad and orbicular, disk-shaped, the border 5-crenate.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa