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meniscoid, a. Bot.|mɪˈnɪskɔɪd| [f. menisc-us + -oid.] Resembling a meniscus in form; of the form of a watch-glass.
1821tr. Decandolle & Sprengel's Philos. Plants 28 The higher degree of the shield-shaped passes into the meniscoid (meniscoideus). 1832Lindley Introd. Bot. 380 Meniscoid;..resembling a watch-glass. 1863Berkeley Brit. Mosses iii. 22 In Sphagnum the spore-sac..consists of..a meniscoid cyst at the top. So meniˈscoidal a. = meniscoid.
1881–2W. Saville-Kent Infusoria II. 870. |