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Discoidal

adjective
1.
Having a flat circular shape.  Synonyms: disc-shaped, disclike, discoid, disk-shaped, disklike.






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"Discoidal" Quotes from Famous Books



... formerly placed among the Mollusca, and the natatory feet grow into long cirri, which whirl nourishment towards the mouth, which is now open. The Rhizocephala remain astomatous; they lose all their limbs completely, and appear as sausage-like, sack-shaped or discoidal excrescences of their host, filled with ova (Figures 59 and 60); from the point of attachment closed tubes, ramified like roots, sink into the interior of the host, twisting round its intestine, or becoming diffused among the sac-like ...
— Facts and Arguments for Darwin • Fritz Muller



Words linked to "Discoidal" :   circular, round, disclike, disk-shaped, discoid



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