Nautiform
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Nautiform is an adjective meaning Shaped like the hull of a ship.
Meaning
Shaped like the hull of a ship.
Example Sentences
[…] inner whorl nautiform, ca. 2.2 mm; synandrium with 9 anthers. Female flowers not seen. Infructescences borne on old stems, stout, carpophores stout, […]
On the island of the Tiber towered the mast-like obelisk of the huge nautiform temple of Aesculapius, whose serpent there deposited, had stayed the plague in the fifth century of Rome.
[…] nautiform, 15 cm long; male flowers small, mixing with bristle-shaped bractlets. Petals 3, similarly as calyx, smaller. Stamens 3, uniting to form a cylindrical structure; anthers basifixed, linear, 2-celled[…]
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include naviform, navicular, nautiliform, scaphoid, conchiform, ichthyomorphic.
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