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Webster 1913 Edition


Wheel-shaped

Wheel′-shapedˊ

,
Adj.
1.
Shaped like a wheel.
2.
(Bot.)
Expanding into a flat, circular border at top, with scarcely any tube;
as, a
wheel-shaped
corolla
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Wheel-shaped

WHEEL-SHAPED

,
Adj.
[wheel and shape.] In botany, rotate; monopetalous, expanding into a flat border at top, with scarcely any tube; as a wheel-shaped corol.