Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to a planula: as, planular cilia; the planular stage of an embryo.

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  • Nangi limped toward the high-backed chairs and, as he came round the side, saw that the one nearest him was occupied by a petite but noble-looking woman with pale, translucent skin, planular cheekbones and black, fiery almond eyes.

    The Kaisho Lustbader, Eric 1983

  • Shell lenticular, thin, diaphanous, imperforate; carina acute and armed with minute spines; whirls six; spire nearly planular; aperture linear, being guarded by a long tooth on the columella; outer lip irregularly thick, angulated near the supe - rior termination ....,

    Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 1771

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