orbiculate

1. 1.

   circular or nearly circular

   Synonymsorbicular

   Similarsimple

Questions about orbiculate

What does orbiculate mean?

orbiculate means "circular or nearly circular".

How many syllables are in orbiculate?

orbiculate has 4 syllables: or-bi-cu-late. The stress falls on "bi".

What is another word for orbiculate?

Close synonyms include orbicular. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is orbiculate a common word?

orbiculate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.