Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Shaped like or resembling a wheel, as the ciliated ring of a rotifer.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Wheel-like; rotiform; discoidal: as, a trochal disk or organ (see below). Also trochate.
- Having a trochal disk or organ; trochate; trochiferous.
- Encircling or surrounding, like the tire of a wheel or the rim of a disk: as, a trochal set of cilia.
- Revolving; spinning like a top; trochilic.
Wiktionary
- adj. zoology Resembling a wheel.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Zoöl.) Resembling a wheel.
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek a wheel. (Wiktionary)
- From Greek trokhos, wheel; see troche. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“He found that if the similar anucleate "polar lobe" of this form is removed at the two-celled stage, deficient larvæ are formed, in which the post-trochal region and the apical organ are absent.”
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘trochal’.
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phrontistery-t
from phrontistery.info
tyromancy, tyroma, tyroid, tyriasis, tyrannicide, typtology, typothetae, typomania, typography, typographia, typhonic, typhomania and 930 more...
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Zoological Terms
Terms used in Zoology
papilionaceous, actinost, gressorial, exuviate, nitid, trochal, demiss, loculus, crebrity, limes, pachytrichous, pachydactyl and 319 more...
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kawy's list
subtrist, tricoteuse, undisonant, apricity, apricity, nudiustertian, snaste, chrestomath, chrestomath, velleity, zugzwang, muntin and 106 more...
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Turning and Twisting Tours
words in the nature of double spirals
swift, swerve, swirl, swivel, swarm, swag, swank, swoop, swinge, swarf, spire, esparto and 361 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3248 more...
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Shaped Like Itself
falcate, pectinate, echinate, ctenoid, xyloid, onomastic, flocculate, hyetal, trochal, irenic, skeuomorph, erose and 2 more...
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super-kawy Shaped like or resembling a wheel. Sep 22, 2009
fbharjo here we go round-n-round Feb 25, 2007