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Definition of Phacoid
1. a. Resembling a lentil; lenticular.
Definition of Phacoid
1. Adjective. Resembling a lentil; lenticular. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Phacoid
1. lens-shaped [adj]
Medical Definition of Phacoid
1. Of lentil shape. Origin: phaco-+ G. Eidos, resemblance (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Phacoid
Literary usage of Phacoid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Microscope: An Illustrated Monthly Designed to Popularize the Subject of (1894)
"B. In this division there is no "phacoid " shell, but a flat discoidal shell.
... In the former, instead of a phacoid shell, there is a small simple central ..."
2. The Chrysokamino Metallurgy Workshop and Its Territory by Philip P. Betancourt (2006)
"In contrast to the orientation of this phacoid, the Plattenkalk just west of the
trenches strikes ..."
3. Bulletin by Geological Survey of Western Australia (1913)
"When traced in any direction it rapidly becomes schistose, the relatively more
massive portions existing in the form of long phacoid-shaped blocks disposed ..."
4. Walker's Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language: Adapted to the by John Walker (1874)
"PETTA H = p«'-t(3\ ». The outer part of a fortified town, or ; li.'.t part which
is be>oud the citadel [E. Ind.J phacoid, f&'-coid, 163, 30 : n. ..."
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