Artillery Captain Chapel's discoid projectile, return towards the doomed vessel like an Australian boomerang.
The men also land the various sections of Roch's engines which are discoid in shape.
Wings coppery: the male with two discoid black dots on the anterior, and one on the posterior wings: club of the antennae elongated and fusiform.
Wings above brown, glossed with blue; anterior with a discoid fulvous spot; beneath white: posterior pair with three black dots in the middle.
Planorbis is a discoid shell, and one peculiarity of the genus is, that they are all reverse shells.
In a discoid shell the spire is depressed; when held up, the whorls turn from right to left, and the aperture is left-handed.
The shells are small; they are discoid or conoid, and have an operculum.
It occupies in Cholaepus Hoffmanni about four-fifths of the surface of the chorion, and is composed of about thirty-four discoid lobes.
In the Sloths, as I have elsewhere described, the placenta is dome-like in its general form, and consists of a number of aggregated, discoid lobes.
They consist of simple primitive (unnucleated) cells joined to each other; they seem often to be flattened into a discoidshape as a result of close conjunction.
In some of the Nemertina the blood is already coloured, and the red colouring matter is real haemoglobin, connected with elliptical discoid cells, as in the Vertebrates.
The blood is red, and the red colouring-matter is haemoglobin, connected with elliptic discoid blood-cells, as in the Vertebrates.
In some of the Lemurs (Tarsius) a discoid placenta with decidua is developed.
A very well marked species, easily recognized, at least when stipitate, by its remarkable discoid or lenticular sporangia.
This species is well differentiated, easy of recognition by reason of its peculiar discoid sporangium, calcareous above, naked and black beneath.
Usually in such case the compared colony will show somewhere a very short and stout but very real stipe supporting the discoid fruit.
Higher in the series is a remarkable calcareous rock, formerly called "the nummulite limestone," from the great number of discoid bodies resembling nummulites which it contains, fossils now referred by A.
All Discoid shells show a horizontal median plane or equatorial plane, by which they are divided into two equal halves, an upper and lower; the margin of the lens itself is originally the equator.
Neither of these names gives an accurate idea of the distinctions between the two groups, in the former of which the discoid form is not universal, and the latter contains somewhat fleshy forms.
Its stem is thick, proceeding from a discoid root, and is clothed with hair-like filaments; and the branches bear short, slender branchlets that give them a feathery appearance.
Its broad, fleshy fronds are divided into finger-like lobes, and are either sessile or supported on a stalk that proceeds from a small discoid root.
Anything having the form of a discus or disk; particularly, a discoid shell.
Bearing the stamens on a discoid outgrowth of the receptacle; -- said of a subclass of plants.
Heads discoid (radiate only in Inula), the pistillate flowers mostly filiform and truncate.
While the amphiblastic ova of the latter are small and develop like those of the amphibia, the cucumber-shaped ova of the hag are about an inch long, and form a discoid gastrula.
Longitudinal section of the discoidgastrula of the nightingale.
Severance of the discoid mammal embryo from the yelk-sac, in transverse section (diagrammatic).
Diagram ofdiscoid segmentation in the bird's ovum (magnified about ten times).
The latter has developed from the amphigastrula of the ganoids and dipneusts, whereas the discoid amniote gastrula has been evolved from the amphibian gastrula by the addition of food-yelk.
It is clear that the important features which distinguish the discoid gastrula from the other chief forms we have considered are determined by the large food-yelk.
Threads of the capillitium pendent from a discoid membrane at the apex of the columella.
Section through thediscoid columella of the very much depressed form.
Stipe stout, thick, tapering upward, entering the sporangium and prolonged to its apex, there expanding into a discoid membrane.
T have shown that these creatures are to be recognized by a discoid groove in the shell, which simply depends upon the mantle, the retractor muscles being wanting.
Finally, there is a special significance in the fact, established by Selenka in 1890, that the anthropoid apes share with man the peculiar structure of the discoid placenta, the decidua reflexa, and the pedicle of the allantois.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "discoid" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: circular; coronary; cyclic; cyclical; round; rounded
