Lenticula

The lentiform nucleus (nucleus lentiformis; lenticular nucleus; lenticula) (Fig. 741) is lateral to the caudate nucleus and thalamus, and is seen only in sections of the hemisphere. ❋ Unknown (1918)

The _lenticula_, as a derivation, is reliable and has authority. ❋ John Ruskin (1859)

_Lentibularia_ is an old generic name of Tournefort's, which has been superseded by _utricularia, _ but, oddly enough, has been retained in the name of the order _lentibulareæ_; but it probably comes from _lenticula_, which signifies the little root bladders, somewhat resembling lentils. ❋ John Ruskin (1859)

Then the spray trail would disperse in Europa’s one-seventh Earth gravity, fall like a slow-motion slushstorm for kilometers on either side of each surface lenticula, and then freeze in Europa’s thin, artificial atmosphere — all 100 millibars of it — adding more abstract sculptural forms to the already tortured icefields. ❋ Simmons, Dan (1981)