isodiametricadj.
/ʌɪsəʊdʌɪəˈmɛtrɪk/ Having equal diameters; spec. applied in Botany to cells of rounded or polyhedral form; in Crystallography to crystals having equal lateral axes.
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the world > plants > part of plant > cell or aggregate tissue > [adjective] > of particular shape
muriform1832
isodiametric1884
isodiametrical1886
1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 117 The forms of thin-walled parenchymatous cells are in the main nearly iso-diametric; but there often occur also elongated-prismatic, spindle-shaped cells, and the like.
1885 G. L. Goodale in A. Gray & G. L. Goodale Bot. Text-bk. (ed. 6) II. i. ii. 60 Three principal shapes [of cells] may well be distinguished..short or isodiametric, elongated, and flattened.
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isodiaˈmetrical adj. = main sense.
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the world > plants > part of plant > cell or aggregate tissue > [adjective] > of particular shape
muriform1832
isodiametric1884
isodiametrical1886
1886 Jrnl. Royal Microsc. Soc. 6 i. 109 Cells..which may be either iso-diametrical or elongated in a direction either parallel to or at right-angles with the axis.
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