a. Nat. Hist. [SUB- 20 c.] Almost orbicular, nearly circular.
1753. Chambers’ Cycl., Suppl. s.v. Leaf, Lunulated Leaf, one in form of a crescent: it is a suborbicular leaf hollowed at the base.
1822. J. Parkinson, Outl. Oryctol., 100. A suborbicular, depressed body.
1887. W. Phillips, Brit. Discomycetes, 386. Stictis punctiformis.… Gregarious, minute, immersed, urceolate, suborbicular.
Comb. 1870. Hooker, Stud. Flora, 339. Populus tremula, leaves … of branches suborbicular-ovate sinuate-serrate.
So Suborbiculate, -ated adjs.
1775. J. Jenkinson, Linnæus’ Brit. Plants, 151. The silicula is erect, suborbiculated, compressed.
1825. Macleay, Annul. Javanica, 13. The thorax neither suborbiculate [n]or entire.
1847. Proc. Berw. Nat. Club, II. v. 235. Head suborbiculate or subquadrate.
