biconvex
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Tube of corolla cylindrical, enlarging above; upper lip arched, compressed, straight in front; the lower erect-spreading, biconvex, 3-lobed at the apex.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
Set in the cabin's walls were four deadlights, windows of biconvex glass that enabled the man at the helm to see in every direction.
From Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Walter, F. P.
The power of our beacon was increased a hundredfold, like a lamp shining through the biconvex lenses of a world–class lighthouse.
From Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Walter, F. P.
The coloured corpuscles of amphibia as well as of nearly all vertebrates below mammals are biconvex and elliptical.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various
"My helmsman is stationed behind the windows of a pilothouse, which protrudes from the topside of the Nautilus's hull and is fitted with biconvex glass."
From Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Walter, F. P.
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