lenslike

• a word derived from lens.
  lens

  noun

  a piece of transparent substance, usually glass, having two opposite surfaces either both curved or one curved and one plane, used in an optical device in changing the convergence of light rays, as for magnification, or in correcting defects of vision.

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lenslike

Each eye, being in a slightly different position in relation to the lenslike ridges, sees a different picture.

From Time Magazine Archive

Each stratum, however, is lenticular, or lenslike, in form, having an area where it is thickest, and thinning out thence to its edges, where it is overlapped by strata similar in shape.

From The Elements of Geology by William Harmon Norton

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• glass