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lenticular /lɛnˈtɪkjʊlə /adjective1Shaped like a lentil, especially by being biconvex: lenticular lenses...- Thanks to lenticular lenses, the figures disappeared like ghosts when the photographs were viewed from certain angles, suggesting the mutability of memory.
- The berries in the most derived clade are all morphologically similar, with two carpels, axile placentation and mostly lenticular seeds.
- The origin of the lenticular sandstone dykelets is more problematic.
2Relating to the lens of the eye.When the lens is distorted, you have lenticular astigmatism....- On the patient's return from the war, an optician had confirmed the lenticular foreign body.
- In 1912, a WD was described as a familial syndrome of progressive lenticular degeneration associated with cirrhosis of the liver.
OriginLate Middle English: from Latin lenticularis, from lenticula, diminutive of lens, lent- 'lentil'. Rhymesauricular, curricula, curricular, diverticula, funicular, navicular, particular, perpendicular, vehicular, vermicular |