meniscoidal

meniscoidal
adj. [Gr. meniskos, a crescent]
1. Crescent-shaped lens; concavo-convex lens; one side convex and the other concave.
2. With one side concave, crescent shape of water in a tube, or convex, crescent-shaped as with mercury in a tube.

Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology. . 2005.

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