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Siphonopoda :: Siphonopoda (n. pl.) A division of Scaphopoda including those in which the foot terminates in a circular disk.

Truck :: Truck (v. i.) A small piece of wood, usually cylindrical or disk-shaped, used for various purposes..

Epigynous :: Epigynous (a.) Adnate to the surface of the ovary, so as to be apparently inserted upon the top of it; -- said of stamens, petals, sepals, and also of the disk..

Target :: Target (n.) A conspicuous disk attached to a switch lever to show its position, or for use as a signal..

Digit :: Digit (n.) One twelfth part of the diameter of the sun or moon; -- a term used to express the quantity of an eclipse; as, an eclipse of eight digits is one which hides two thirds of the diameter of the disk..

Discophora :: Discophora (n. pl.) A division of acalephs or jellyfishes, including most of the large disklike species..

Vorticella :: Vorticella (n.) Any one of numerous species of ciliated Infusoria belonging to Vorticella and many other genera of the family Vorticellidae. They have a more or less bell-shaped body with a circle of vibrating cilia around the oral disk. Most of the species have slender, contractile stems, either simple or branched..

Disk :: Disk (n.) The lower side of the body of some invertebrates, especially when used for locomotion, when it is often called a creeping disk..

Siren :: Siren (n.) An instrument for producing musical tones and for ascertaining the number of sound waves or vibrations per second which produce a note of a given pitch. The sounds are produced by a perforated rotating disk or disks. A form with two disks operated by steam or highly compressed air is used sounding an alarm to vessels in fog.

Face :: Face (n.) The principal dressed surface of a plate, disk, or pulley; the principal flat surface of a part or object..

Radiate :: Radiate (a.) Having in a capitulum large ray florets which are unlike the disk florets, as in the aster, daisy, etc..

Lophophore :: Lophophore (n.) A disk which surrounds the mouth and bears the tentacles of the Bryozoa. See Phylactolemata.

Planchet :: Planchet (n.) A flat piece of metal; especially, a disk of metal ready to be stamped as a coin..

Orbitolites :: Orbitolites (n.) A genus of living Foraminifera, forming broad, thin, circular disks, containing numerous small chambers..

Transit :: Transit (v. t.) To pass over the disk of (a heavenly body).

Starfish :: Starfish (n.) Any one of numerous species of echinoderms belonging to the class Asterioidea, in which the body is star-shaped and usually has five rays, though the number of rays varies from five to forty or more. The rays are often long, but are sometimes so short as to appear only as angles to the disklike body. Called also sea star, five-finger, and stellerid..

Daisy :: Daisy (n.) A genus of low herbs (Bellis), belonging to the family Compositae. The common English and classical daisy is B. prennis, which has a yellow disk and white or pinkish rays..

Gong :: Gong (n.) An instrument, first used in the East, made of an alloy of copper and tin, shaped like a disk with upturned rim, and producing, when struck, a harsh and resounding noise..

Chromatrope :: Chromatrope (n.) An instrument for exhibiting certain chromatic effects of light (depending upon the persistence of vision and mixture of colors) by means of rapidly rotating disks variously colored.

Myzostomata :: Myzostomata (n. pl.) An order of curious parasitic worms found on crinoids. The body is short and disklike, with four pairs of suckers and five pairs of hook-bearing parapodia on the under side..

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