Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The lenticular nucleus in the brain.
- noun In optics, a small lens.
- noun In bot.: A lenticel.
- noun The spore-case of some fungi.
- noun A freckle; an ephelis. Also
lenticule .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) A kind of eruption upon the skin; lentigo; freckle.
- noun (Opt.) A lens of small size.
- noun (Bot.) A lenticel.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun medicine A kind of
eruption upon theskin ;lentigo ;freckle . - noun A small
lens . - noun botany A
lenticel .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The lentiform nucleus (nucleus lentiformis; lenticular nucleus; lenticula) (Fig. 741) is lateral to the caudate nucleus and thalamus, and is seen only in sections of the hemisphere.
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The _lenticula_, as a derivation, is reliable and has authority.
Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859
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_Lentibularia_ is an old generic name of Tournefort's, which has been superseded by _utricularia, _ but, oddly enough, has been retained in the name of the order _lentibulareæ_; but it probably comes from _lenticula_, which signifies the little root bladders, somewhat resembling lentils.
Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859
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Then the spray trail would disperse in Europa’s one-seventh Earth gravity, fall like a slow-motion slushstorm for kilometers on either side of each surface lenticula, and then freeze in Europa’s thin, artificial atmosphere — all 100 millibars of it — adding more abstract sculptural forms to the already tortured icefields.
Ilium Simmons, Dan 1981
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