#249. Rotundity.
— N. rotundity; roundness &c. adj.;
cylindricity[obs3]; sphericity, spheroidity[obs3];
globosity[obs3].
cylinder, cylindroid[obs3],
cylindrical; barrel, drum; roll, roller;
rouleau[obs3], column, rolling-pin, rundle.
cone, conoid[obs3];
pear shape, egg shape, bell shape.
sphere, globe, ball,
boulder, bowlder[obs3]; spheroid, ellipsoid;
oblong spheroid; oblate spheroid, prolate spheroid;
drop, spherule, globule, vesicle, bulb, bullet, pellet,
pelote[obs3], clew, pill, marble, pea, knob, pommel,
horn; knot (convolution) 248.
curved surface, hypersphere;
hyperdimensional surface.
V. render spherical
&c. adj.; form into a sphere, sphere, roll into a
ball; give rotundity &c. n.; round.
Adj. rotund; round &c.
(circular) 247; cylindric, cylindrical,
cylindroid[obs3]; columnar, lumbriciform[obs3]; conic,
conical; spherical, spheroidal; globular, globated[obs3],
globous[obs3], globose; egg shaped, bell shaped, pear
shaped; ovoid, oviform; gibbous; rixiform[obs3]; campaniform[obs3],
campanulate[obs3], campaniliform[obs3]; fungiform[obs3],
bead-like, moniliform[obs3], pyriform[obs3], bulbous;
tres atque rotundus[Lat]; round as an orange, round
as an apple, round as a ball, round as a billiard
ball, round as a cannon ball.
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#250. Convexity.
— N. convexity, prominence, projection,
swelling,
gibbosity[obs3], bilge, bulge, protuberance, protrusion;
camber, cahot [obs3][N. Am.], thank-ye-ma’am
[U.S.]. swell.
intumescence; tumour[Brit],
tumor; tubercle, tuberosity[Anat];
excrescence; hump, hunch, bunch.
boss, embossment, hub,
hubble
[convex body parts]
tooth[U.S.], knob, elbow, process,
apophysis[obs3], condyle, bulb, node, nodule, nodosity[obs3],
tongue, dorsum, bump, clump; sugar loaf &c. (sharpness)
253; bow; mamelon[obs3]; molar; belly, corporation|!,
pot belly, gut[coll]; withers, back, shoulder, lip,
flange.
[convexities on skin]
pimple, zit [slang]; wen, wheel, papula[Med],
pustule, pock, proud flesh, growth, sarcoma, caruncle[obs3],
corn, wart, pappiloma, furuncle, polypus[obs3], fungus,
fungosity[obs3], exostosis[obs3], bleb, blister, blain[obs3];
boil &c. (disease) 655; airbubble[obs3], blob, papule,
verruca.
[convex body parts on
chest] papilla, nipple, teat, tit [vulgar],
titty [vulgar], boob [vulgar], knocker[vulgar], pap,
breast, dug, mammilla[obs3].
[prominent convexity
on the face] proboscis, nose, neb, beak, snout,
nozzle, schnoz[coll].
peg, button, stud, ridge,
rib, jutty, trunnion, snag.
cupola, dome, arch,
balcony, eaves; pilaster.
relief, relievo[It],
cameo; bassorilievo[obs3], mezzorilevo[obs3],
altorivievo; low relief, bas relief[Fr], high relief.
hill &c. (height) 206;
cape, promontory, mull; forehead,
foreland[obs3]; point of land, mole, jetty, hummock,
ledge, spur; naze[obs3], ness.


