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globule

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Globule (noun) means a tiny round drop of a substance.

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A tiny round drop of a substance.

"A civilized hotel is a little urban globule floating like scum on a rustic pool." — C. E. M. Joad, The Babbitt Warren (1926)

"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." — Dean W. Ahrenholz, Population Biology and Life History of the North American Menhadens, Brevoortia spp (1991)

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