lenticular

Borrowed from Latin lenticulāris (“lentil-shaped”), from lēns (“a lentil”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /lɛnˈtɪk.jʊ.lə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /lɛnˈtɪk.jə.lɚ/

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lenticular (comparative more lenticular, superlative most lenticular)

1. Of or pertaining to a lens.
2. Shaped like a biconvex lens.
   • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 5:

     The sporophyte foot is also characteristic: it is very broad and more or less lenticular or disciform, as broad or broader than the calyptra stalk […]

3. Relating to a lenticular image.

• (shaped like a biconvex lens): lentiform

• extralenticular
• lens
• lensoidal
• lenticel

lenticular (plural lenticulars)

1. A lenticular image.
2. A lenticular galaxy.

Borrowed from Latin lenticularis.

lenticular (plural lenticulares)

1. lenticular