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Any fresh-water air-breathing mollusk belonging to Planorbis and other allied genera, having shells of a discoidal form.
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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.
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Discoid.
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Bearing the stamens on a discoid outgrowth of the receptacle; -- said of a subclass of plants. Cf. Calycifloral.
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Disklike; discoid.
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Disk-shaped; discoid.
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One of a species of coccoliths, having an oval discoidal body, with a thick strongly refracting rim, and a thinner central portion. One of them measures about / of an inch in its longest diameter.
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Anything having the form of a discus or disk; particularly, a discoid shell.
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Discoidal by derivation; -- applied especially to the placenta of man and apes, because it is supposed to have been derived from a diffused placenta.
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