flabelliformadj.
/fləˈbɛlɪfɔːm/ Botany and Zoology.
Having the form of a fan, fan-like.
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plummet-like1605
semilunar1681
cordated1698
cordate1760
obcordate1775
club-shaped1776
flabelliform1777
obovate1785
button-shaped1791
clavate1803
placentiform?a1808
obovoid1819
valviform1819
constricted1826
vulviform1829
mitrate1836
bipenniform1842
sandaliform1848
scopiform1852
obclavate1856
obcordiform1857
oboval1857
utriform1860
broadsword-shaped1870
placentoid1885
hypsiloid1886
1777 Miller in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 68 179 A palm with flabelliform leaves.
1828 J. Stark Elements Nat. Hist. II. 295 Antennæ flabelliform or pectinated.
1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. ii. vii. 408 They have an anterior flabelliform filament.
1880 C. Darwin & F. Darwin Power of Movement in Plants 206 The branches are flat, or flabelliform.
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