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hemisphered

hemisphered adjective: shaped into a hemisphere or hemispheres.

Adjective

hemisphered (comparative more hemisphered, superlative most hemisphered)

  1. Shaped into a hemisphere or hemispheres.
    • [T]hose which they call the eyes of Crabs, Lobsters, Shrimps, and the like, and are really so, are Hemispher'd, almost in the same manner as these of Flies are.1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section XXXIX
  2. Having a (dominant) cerebral hemisphere of a specified kind.
    • Objects situated in the right half of vision of a left-hemisphered infant would, by appearing larger, attract its attention.1988, Rattihalli N. Malatesha, Lawrence C. Hartlage, Neuropsychology and Cognition, page 13

Forms of hemisphered

comparativemore hemisphered
superlativemost hemisphered

Origin of hemisphered

From hemisphere + -ed.

Words formed from hemisphered

Questions about hemisphered

What does hemisphered mean?
Hemisphered means shaped into a hemisphere or hemispheres.
What part of speech is hemisphered?
Hemisphered is an adjective.

Words near hemisphered in the dictionary

  1. hemispermatophores
  2. hemispheral
  3. hemisphere
  4. hemispherectomies
  5. hemispherectomy
  6. hemisphered
  7. hemispheres
  8. hemispheric
  9. hemispherical
  10. hemispherically
  11. hemisphericity

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