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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

WHEEL-SHAPED

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

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

WHEEL-SHAPED

WHEEL-SHAPED Wheel "-shaped `, a.

 

1. Shaped like a wheel.

 

2. (Bot. )

 

Defn: Expanding into a flat, circular border at top, with scarcely any tube; as, a wheel-shaped corolla.