Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Flat and rounded in shape; discoid.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Resembling a disk or quoit in shape; discoidal

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Discoid.

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  • adjective botany Having a flat, rounded shape.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective having a round or oval shape like a disc

Etymologies

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Ancient Greek δίσκος ("disc") + -form

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Examples

  • Simultaneous with the burst of colors, the human witness would have seen the emergence of an astronomical number of atoms in the form of a rotating, black disciform concretion.

    Invasion Cook, Robin, 1940- 2000

  • The style is longer than usual, is straight and erect; the broad, disciform stigma therefore faces upwards; it is oval and symmetrical, and a light groove across its middle shows it to be dimerous.

    Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

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