discoidal

This discoidal arrangement of the hair is typical of the emblem of fructification worn by the virgin in the Muingwa festival.

Professor Haeckel states that no sharp and fast line can be drawn between the types of 'unequal' and 'discoidal' segmentation.

His papers show that the segmentation is discoidal, and results in an oval blastodermic area lying on a large mass of yolk.

A sub-genus of Cyclostoma, consisting of those species which are discoidal, as C. Planorbulum.

A spiral shell is said to be discoidal, when the whorls are so horizontally convolute as to form a flattened spire.