lenticular

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The portion of the males found engaged in the body of our queens, hitherto called the lenticular substance, may be denominated a penis both from its position and use.

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  1. adjective Shaped like a biconvex lens.
  2. adjective Of or relating to a lens.

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  • The second, and much rarer, part of Esteban's sticker collection hits a little closer to home in terms of the type, lenticular, which seems like a design that was created especially for Transformers, though obviously it wasn't. —  Branded in the 80s!
  • Last up today are some more of the style of lenticular (or switchable as the packaging refers to them) stickers that I shared way back on —  Branded in the 80s!
  • Closer inspection revealed the use of some kind of lenticular lens to achieve the effect. —  MSDN Blogs
  • I thought some of the demo prints worked better than others, and all the shots had a lenticular-like quality. —  Consumer Reports Electronics Blog
  • In 1992 they founded the Virtual Image Gallery, the world's first gallery devoted solely to lenticular art. —  NYC.com's Exclusive New York City Event Calendar : Art
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  1. Latin lenticulāris, lentil-shaped, from lenticula, lentil; see lentil.

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  1. = French lenticulaire = Provencal Spanish Portuguese lenticular = Italian lenticolare, from Latin lenticularis, lentil-shaped, from lenticula, a lentil: see lenticule, lentil.
 

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/lɛnˈtɪkjulər/
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