Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Cissoid

Cissoid , noun

[Greek {not transcribed} like ivy; {not transcribed} ivy + e'i^dos form.]

(Geometry) A curve invented by Diocles, for the purpose of solving two celebrated problems of the higher geometry; namely, to trisect a plane angle, and to construct two geometrical means between two given straight lines.