semispherical

Adjective

1. hemispherical, having the shape of a hemisphere
   • The thatched semispherical huts of palm tree leaves and tamarisk were also interesting, as was the windmill, identical with those already seen in Sistan. - 1902, Arnold Henry Savage Landor, Across Coveted Lands:
   • The acorns, the largest among the oaks, are semispherical with the cups extremely shallow. - 1914, Jacob Joshua Levison, Studies of Trees:
   • Hence, the fracture surface consists of a periodic array of semispherical bowls. - 1998 October 30, Anvar A. Zakhidov et al., “Carbon Structures with Three-Dimensional Periodicity at Optical Wavelengths”, in Science,...