Divided into or bearing finger-like lobes or sections; digitate. Botany. Of a plant or its leaf, flower, fruit, root, etc. (Cf. digitate, adj. 2a, pa…
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释义 | the world > plants > part of plant > part defined by form or function > [adjective] > having specific shape (56) fingered1597 Divided into or bearing finger-like lobes or sections; digitate. Botany. Of a plant or its leaf, flower, fruit, root, etc. (Cf. digitate, adj. 2a, pa… fistular1640 Hollow and cylindrical like a pipe or tube; tubular. Also: †having or consisting of tubular structures (obsolete). Cf. fistulous, adj. 2. Chiefly B… umbilicated1693 Having a depression like the navel; umbilicate. (Chiefly in special applications: see quots.) pectinal1705 Zoology. Of the nature of or resembling a comb; of or relating to a pecten (pecten, n. 3). Cf. pectinate, adj.2 Also occasionally in Botany. fornicated1750 Arched, bending over; esp. in Botany of a leaf, etc. deltoid1753 Resembling the Greek letter Δ in shape; triangular; esp. in Botany, of a leaf; also triangular in section, as the leaf of Mesembryanthemum deltoideum… linguiform1753 Tongue-shaped; = lingulate, adj. 1. panduriform1753 Esp. of a leaf: rounded at both ends and narrowed in the middle; fiddle-shaped. lingulated1754 Tongue-shaped; = lingulate, adj. 1. campaniform1758 Bell-shaped. augmented1760 spec. Botany. Of a part of a flower or plant: having an increased number of segments; (also) enlarged. Now rare. ringed1760 Botany. Of a part of a plant (esp. the stem of a palm): encircled with raised or depressed bands of tissue. securiform1760 Of an organ or part: shaped like an axe or hatchet. urceolate1760 Having the shape of an urn or pitcher; esp. in Botany, Anatomy, etc. utricular1760 Of the nature of, resembling or like, a utricle. lingulate1763 Chiefly Biology and Botany. Tongue-shaped; resembling a small tongue. vermicular1766 Botany. (See quot. 1866.) pandurated1771 = panduriform, adj. navicular1793 Boat-shaped. Biology. Of parts of plants and animals, cells, spores, etc. semicolumnar1793 of the form of a semi-column; Botany applied to stems, etc. shaped like half a cylinder cut lengthwise. ungulate1802 Having the form of a hoof; hoof-shaped. capitellate1808 Of a long narrow part, esp. a stigma: terminating in a small knob. Cf. capitate, adj. 1. meniscoid1821 Chiefly Botany. Resembling a meniscus (meniscus, n. 2); thin and concavo-convex. virgate1821 Rod-like; long, slender, and straight. mitriform1824 Botany. Resembling or shaped like a mitre; (spec. of the calyptra of a moss) conical, symmetrical, and having two or more slits (cf. dimidiate, adj.… pulvinate1824 Chiefly Botany and Entomology. Resembling a cushion in shape, moderately convex. caudated1829 = caudate, adj. vulviform1829 Shaped like a vulva; resembling a vulva. caudate1830 Furnished with a structure or appendage resembling a tail. Botany. circinate1830 literal. Rounded, made circular; spec. applied to that mode of vernation or foliation in which the leaf is rolled up on its axis from the apex to… intruded1830 spec. Botany. = intruse, adj. trochlear1830 Botany. Pulley-shaped; circular and contracted in the middle like the wheel of a pulley, as the embryo of Commelynaceæ. scalariform1836 Of the form of, or resembling, a ladder; characterized by ladder-like formation, as cells or vessels of plants having the walls thickened so that… hippocrepiform1847 Shaped like a horseshoe. neottious1850 Resembling a bird's nest; characteristic of the bird's-nest orchid, Neottia nidus-avis. pulviniform1851 Resembling a cushion in shape; bulging, convex; = pulvinate, adj. 1. foxglove-shaped1856 (see quot.). clathroid1857 = clathrate, adj. molariform1857 Having the form of a molar tooth. velate1857 Botany. (See quots. 1857, 1866.) strombuliform1859 Botany. Twisted in a long spire, so as to resemble the convolutions of the shell Strombus. calceiform1860 Shaped like a shoe or slipper; calceolate. coralline1860 Resembling coral; coral-like. forniciform1860 urceolar1860 = urceolate, adj. 1. calceolate1861 Shaped like a slipper. frustulose1866 (See quot.) pandurate1866 = panduriform, adj. intruse1870 Having a form as if pushed or thrust inwards. scalar1880 Resembling a ladder; Botany = scalariform, adj. meniscoidal1881 = sense A. 1. fingerposted1885 Provided with or indicated by a fingerpost or fingerposts. Also (and in earliest use) figurative. Cf. signposted, adj. applanate1887 Of a flattened or horizontally expanded form. trochleariform1895 = sense 2 above. naviculoid1898 More generally: = navicular, adj. 3b. halonate1911 Surrounded by an outer ring. |
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