discoidal

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"Maybe that discoidal shape is some sort of reference to the Sun, who knows?," he said.

From BBC • Jun. 17, 2026

This is a beautiful species, easily known by its discoidal or almost annulate sporangia mounted upon short dark black stipes.

From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by MacBride, Thomas H. (Thomas Huston)

Posterior wings broad, semi-ovate, costal nervure long, sub-costal terminating in only two nervules, discoidal nervule nearly atrophied; discocellular the same, united with the third median nervule; cell rather large.

From Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1. With an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During The Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in the Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative Of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits to the Islands in the Arafura Sea. by Stokes, John Lort

I shall close this communication by a notice of certain discoidal stones occasionally found in the mounds of the United States.

From Some Observations on the Ethnography and Archaeology of the American Aborigines by Morton, Samuel George

A smooth discoidal stone, some 4 or 5 inches in diameter, and a wooden paddle are the instruments used to shape the bowl.

From The Bontoc Igorot by Jenks, Albert Ernest