semicircular

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: sem=i=cir=cu=lar

CIDE DICTIONARY

semicircular, a. 

 Having the form of half of a circle.  Addison.  [1913 Webster]

Semicircular canals (Anat.), certain canals of the inner ear. See under Ear.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

semicircular, adj.
1 forming or shaped like a semicircle.
2 arranged as or in a semicircle.

Idiom

semicircular canal one of three fluid-filled channels in the ear giving information to the brain to help maintain balance.

Etymology

LL semicircularis (as SEMICIRCLE)

THESAURUS

semicircular

Cynthian, S-shaped, bicorn, corniform, crescent, crescent-shaped, crescentic, crescentiform, crescentlike, falcate, falciform, horn-shaped, horned, lunar, lunate, luniform, lunular, menisciform, meniscoid, moon-shaped, moonlike, semilunar, sickle-like, sickle-shaped, sigmoid, two-horned

ROGET THESAURUS

semicircular

Curvature

N curvature, curvity, curvation, incurvature, incurvity, incurvation, bend, flexure, flexion, flection, conflexure, crook, hook, bought, bending, deflection, deflexion, inflection, inflexion, concameration, arcuation, devexity, turn, deviation, detour, sweep, curl, curling, bough, recurvity, recurvation, sinuosity, kink, carve, arc, arch, arcade, vault, bow, crescent, half-moon, lunule, horseshoe, loop, crane neck, parabola, hyperbola, helix, spiral, catenary, festoon, conchoid, cardioid, caustic, tracery, arched ceiling, arched roof, bay window, bow window, sine curve, spline, spline curve, spline function, obliquity, curved, curviform, curvilineal, curvilinear, devex, devious, recurved, recurvous, crump, bowed, vaulted, hooked, falciform, falcated, semicircular, crescentic, sinusoid, parabolic, paraboloid, luniform, lunular, semilunar, conchoidal, helical, double helical, spiral, kinky, cordiform, cordated, cardioid, heart shaped, bell shaped, boat shaped, crescent shaped, lens shaped, moon shaped, oar shaped, shield shaped, sickle shaped, tongue shaped, pear shaped, fig shaped, kidney-shaped, reniform, lentiform, lenticular, bow-legged, oblique, circular, aduncated, arclike, arcuate, arched, beaked, bicorn, bicornuous, bicornute, clypeate, clypeiform, cymbiform, embowed, galeiform, hamate, hamiform, hamous, hooked, linguiform, lingulate, lobiform, lunate, navicular, peltate, remiform, rhamphoid, rostrate, rostriferous, rostroid, scutate, scaphoid, uncate, unguiculate, unguiform.