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Webster 1913 Edition

Pelecoid

Pel′e-coid

,

Noun.

[Gr.

πέλεκυσ

a hatchet +

-oid

.]

(Geom.)

A figure, somewhat hatched-shaped, bounded by a semicircle and two inverted quadrants, and equal in area to the square ABCD inclosed by the chords of the four quadrants.

[Written also

pelicoid

.]

Math. Dict.