lenticular

[len-tik-yuh-ler]

adjective

of or relating to a lens.

biconvex; convexo-convex.

resembling the seed of a lentil in form; lentil-shaped.

Origin of lenticular

1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin lenticulāris lentillike, equivalent to lenticul(a) (see lenticle) + -āris -ar¹

Related formslen·tic·u·lar·ly, adverbpost·len·tic·u·lar, adjectivesub·len·tic·u·lar, adjective

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Examples from the Web for lenticular

Historical Examples of lenticular

Shell subcircular, lenticular, strongly compressed on both sides, with a sharp and broad hyaline keel in the sagittal perimeter.
Report on the Radiolaria Collected by H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-1876, Second Part: Subclass Osculosa; Index
Ernst Haeckel
Shell subcircular, lenticular, strongly compressed, with two short divergent spines on the apical margin (a dorsal and a ventral).
Report on the Radiolaria Collected by H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-1876, Second Part: Subclass Osculosa; Index
Ernst Haeckel
The refracting or lenticular stereoscope that of Sir David Brewster.
The Boy's Playbook of Science
John Henry Pepper
Style 2-cleft with the fruit flattened or lenticular; or 3-cleft and fruit 3-angular.
The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States
Asa Gray
It is these which enter the frontal lobe and lenticular nucleus.
Degeneracy
Eugene S. Talbot

British Dictionary definitions for lenticular

lenticular

lentiform (ˈlɛntɪˌfɔːm)

adjective

Also: lentoid (ˈlɛntɔɪd) shaped like a biconvex lens

of or concerned with a lens or lenses

shaped like a lentil seed

of or relating to a galaxy with a large central bulge, small disc, but no spiral arms, intermediate in shape between spiral and elliptical galaxies

Word Origin for lenticular

C17: from Latin lenticulāris like a lentil

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Word Origin and History for lenticular

adj.

early 15c., from Late Latin lenticularis, from lenticula "a small lentil," diminutive of lens "lentil" (see lentil). Related: Lenticularity.

lenticular in Medicine

lenticular

[lĕn-tĭk′yə-lər]

adj.

Of or relating to a lens.

Shaped like a biconvex lens.