Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
curved into a half circle;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Semicircular \Sem`i*cir"cu*lar\, a.
Having the form of half of a circle. --Addison.
[1913 Webster]
Semicircular canals (Anat.), certain canals of the inner
ear. See under Ear.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
curved \curved\ adj.
1. not straight; having or marked by curves. Opposite of
straight.
Note: [Narrower terms: arced, arched, arching, arciform,
arcuate, bowed; falcate, sickle-shaped; flexuous;
incurvate, incurved: recurved, recurvate;
semicircular: serpentine, snaky: sinuate, sinuous,
wavy: sinusoidal]
Syn: curving.
[WordNet 1.5]
2. (Botany) curved with the micropyle near the base almost
touching its stalk; -- of a plant ovule. Opposite of
orthotropous.
Syn: campylotropous.
[WordNet 1.5]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
semicircular
adj 1: curved into a half circle
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
26 Moby Thesaurus words for "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