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tro⋅chal

[troh-kuhl]
–adjective Zoology.
resembling a wheel.

Origin:
1835–45; < Gk troch(ós) wheel + -al 1
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tro·chal   (trō'kəl)   
adj.  Shaped like or resembling a wheel, as the ciliated ring of a rotifer.

[From Greek trokhos, wheel; see troche.]
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