biconvex

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Convex on both sides; as, a biconvex lens.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah

The crystalline lens is a transparent, biconvex body sustained by the ciliary processes.

From Common Diseases of Farm Animals by Craig, R. A., D. V. M.

The red blood-corpuscles are invariably oval disks, with a central nucleus which causes a slight swelling; hence they are oval and biconvex.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various

Tube of corolla cylindrical, enlarging above; upper lip arched, compressed, straight in front; the lower erect-spreading, biconvex, 3-lobed at the apex.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

I then examined the fittings of this mechanism, whose power was increased a hundredfold by biconvex lenses that were designed like those in a lighthouse and kept its rays productively focused.

From Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Walter, F. P.