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Definition of Lentoid
1. a. Having the form of a lens; lens- shaped.
Definition of Lentoid
1. Adjective. Having the form of a lens; lens-shaped. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lentoid
1. an object shaped like a lens [n -S]
Medical Definition of Lentoid
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Lentoid
Literary usage of Lentoid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mycenæ: A Narrative of Researches and Discoveries at Mycenæ and Tiryns by Heinrich Schliemann, William Ewart Gladstone (1880)
"... probably the handles of sceptres—lentoid gems of agate, sardonyx, &c., with
intaglios-—A lentoid gem of amethyst engraved with a cow suckling her calf, ..."
2. The Tomb of Senebtisi at Lisht by Arthur Cruttenden Mace, Herbert Eustis Winlock (1916)
"B and G. Papyrus heads, lentoid and foliated beads, in carnelian and green faience.
Strung here as a kind of network, with the papyrus heads at the bottom. ..."
3. Karanòg: The Romano-Nubian Cemetery by Leonard Woolley, David Randall-MacIver (1910)
"Mixed string of blue and red paste or glass beads, all small and of various
shapes, lentoid, discoid, spheroid, and facetted; 117 in all. 7774. /. 0.12 m. ..."
4. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"12, gives five examples of early lentoid gems, and .'even more gems,of tho same
class are given by AS Murray in the Rev. Arch., 1878, pi. 20. ..."
5. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus by John Linton Myres (1914)
"lentoid BEADS of gold, made of thin plate; of characteristic Late Minoan form,
circular with a deep longitudinal groove; (3138-4o,) or oval(3 ..."
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