hemisphered

hemisphered

English

Etymology

From hemisphere +‎ -ed.

Adjective

hemisphered (comparative more hemisphered, superlative most hemisphered)

1. Shaped into a hemisphere or hemispheres.
   • 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, XXXIX:

     [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.

2. Having a (dominant) cerebral hemisphere of a specified kind.
   • 1988, Rattihalli N. Malatesha, Lawrence C. Hartlage, Neuropsychology and Cognition, p. 13:

     Objects situated in the right half of vision of a left-hemisphered infant would, by appearing larger, attract its attention.