Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the form of a lentil or a double-convex lens; lens-shaped.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having the form of a lens; lens-shaped.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having the form of a
lens ; lens-shaped.
Etymologies
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lens + -oid
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Examples
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His characteristic bulging eyes are half concealed by heavy eyelids, whereas the lentoid-shaped pupils, an innovation of his reign, make them gaze upward as if in deep contemplation, perfectly fitting to an emperor who was more of a philosopher than of a soldier, although he had to spend most of his life fighting Germans along the Austrian Danube, where in A.D. 180, he eventually died in nearby Carnuntum.
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(f) Part of the design from a lentoid gem from the Idæan Cave, now in the Candia Museum (after Evans, Fig. 25).
The Evolution of the Dragon G. Elliot Smith
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