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Discoid

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 2

Part of speech: noun (n.)

Anything having the form of a discus or disk; particularly, a discoid shell.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

Having the form of a disk, as those univalve shells which have the whorls in one plane, so as to form a disk, as the pearly nautilus. Discoid flower (Bot.), a compound flower, consisting of tubular florets only, as a tansy, lacking the rays which are seen in the daisy and sunflower.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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