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Globule

//ˈɡlɒbjuːl// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A small round particle of substance; a drop.

    "Suppoſe now that in a fair Day the Sun ſhines through a thin Cloud of ſuch globules of Water or Hail, and that the globules are all of the ſame bigneſs[…]"

  2. 2
    a small globe or ball wordnet

Etymology

From French globule, from Latin globulus, from globus (“globe”).

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