globule

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlɒbjuːl/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlɑbjul/
• Rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɒbjuːl, (General American) -ɑbjul
• Hyphenation: glob‧ule

globule (plural globules)

1. A small round particle of substance; a drop.
   • 1704, Sir Isaac Newton, Opticks, 3rd edition, London: W. and J. Innys, published 1721, page 289:

     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 […]

   • 1926, C. E. M. Joad, The Babbitt Warren, London: Trubner & Co, page 19:

     A civilized hotel is a little urban globule floating like scum on a rustic pool.

   • 1991, Dean W. Ahrenholz, “Population Biology and Life History of the North American Menhadens, Brevoortia spp.”, in Marine Fisheries Review‎^[1], archived from the original on 5 January 2021, page 9:

     They described the eggs as spherical in shape, highly transparent with a thin, horny egg membrane and a relatively wide perivitelline space. Each egg contained a single oil globule.

   • 2005 June 4, Janet Raloff, “Empty Nets: Fisheries may be crippling themselves by targeting the big ones”, in Science News‎^[2], archived from the original on 5 January 2021:

     Mature female black rockfish and newborn (inset), which sports an oil globule (arrow) - its prepacked lunch. Older moms give young a bigger starting meal, boosting the offsprings'^[sic] growth and survival.

Learned borrowing from Latin globulus. By surface analysis, globe +‎ -ule.

• IPA^(key): /ɡlɔ.byl/

globule m (plural globules)

1. globule
2. (cytology) blood cell

   globule blanc ― white blood cell

   globule rouge ― red blood cell

• globuleux

• → English: globule

• “globule”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

globule

1. vocative singular of globulus

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡlobule]

globule n

1. vocative singular of glob