Etymology

lentiform

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Today it means: Shaped like a biconvex lens. Full definition →

Latin lens
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  1. Latin · borrowed fromlens
  2. English todaylentiform

From lent-, stem of Latin lens + -iform.

Words from the same roots

Latinlens all →

lenslenticularlenticellenticularis

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