globule

Etymology

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

noun

1. A small round particle of substance; a drop.
   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[…] 1704, Sir Isaac Newton, Opticks, 3rd edition, London: W. and J. Innys, published 1721, page 289
   A civilized hotel is a little urban globule floating like scum on a rustic pool. 1926, C. E. M. Joad, The Babbitt Warren, London: Trubner & Co, page 19
   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. 1991, Dean W. Ahrenholz, “Population Biology and Life History of the North American Menhadens, Brevoortia spp.”, in Marine Fisheries Review, archived from the original on 2021-01-05, page 9
   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' growth and survival. 2005-06-04, Janet Raloff, “Empty Nets: Fisheries may be crippling themselves by targeting the big ones”, in Science News