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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Discoid \Dis"coid\, a. [Gr. ? quoit-shaped, ? a round plate, quoit + ? form shape: cf F. disco["i]de. See {Disk}.] Having the form of a disk, as those univalve shells which have the whorls in one plane, so as to form a disk, as the pearly nautilus. {Discoid flower} (Bot.), a compound flower, consisting of tubular florets only, as a tansy, lacking the rays which are seen in the daisy and sunflower. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Discoid \Dis"coid\, n. Anything having the form of a discus or disk; particularly, a discoid shell. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: discoid adj : having a flat circular shape [syn: {discoidal}, {disklike}]
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