Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for DIS'COID, or DIS-COID'AL
DIS'COID, or DIS-COID'AL, a.
Having the form of a disk. Discoid or discous flowers, are compound flowers, not radiated, but the florets all tubular, as the tansy, southern-wood, &c. – Cyc. Smith.
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