Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Shaped like or resembling a wheel, as the ciliated ring of a rotifer.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Wheel-like; rotiform; discoidal: as, a trochal disk or organ (see below). Also
trochate . - Having a trochal disk or organ; trochate; trochiferous.
- Encircling or surrounding, like the tire of a wheel or the rim of a disk: as, a trochal set of cilia.
- Revolving; spinning like a top; trochilic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Resembling a wheel.
- adjective (Zoöl.) the cephalic disk of a rotifer. It is usually surrounded by a fringe of cilia.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective zoology Resembling a
wheel .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From Greek trokhos, wheel; see troche.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From Ancient Greek a wheel.
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Examples
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He found that if the similar anucleate "polar lobe" of this form is removed at the two-celled stage, deficient larvæ are formed, in which the post-trochal region and the apical organ are absent.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
fbharjo commented on the word trochal
here we go round-n-round
February 26, 2007
super-kawy commented on the word trochal
Shaped like or resembling a wheel.
September 22, 2009