Concept cluster: Anatomy > Morphological descriptions
adj
ampullate
adj
Shaped like an almond
n
(botany) The growing point of a shoot.
adj
Alternative form of arilled (“having an aril”) [(botany) Having an aril.]
n
(UK dialectal) Epithelium produced on the tongue.
adj
Shaped like a bacillus; rod-shaped
n
Paps, or little projections, of the mucous membrane, which mark the opening of the submaxillary glands under the tongue in horses and cattle. The name is mostly applied when the barbs are inflamed and swollen.
adj
(geometry) Having had two cupolae removed.
adj
Having the nature or appearance of a bract.
n
(Christianity, historical) Synonym of fistula (“tube for sucking Eucharist wine”)
adj
Relating to, or resembling, a cup.
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campanulate; bell-shaped
adj
Shaped like a bell.
adj
Alternative form of campanulate (“bell-shaped”) [Shaped like a bell.]
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cinereous
adj
Relating to cirrocumuli
adj
(rare) finely clathrate
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clavate; club-shaped
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clavate; club-shaped
adj
(botany) Closely joined (by growing together)
adj
Having the form of a column.
adj
Alternative form of cordate [(botany) Heart-shaped, with a point at the apex and a notch at the base.]
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corticate
adj
Finely ribbed or costate.
adj
Perforated, as in the manner of a sieve.
n
The condition of being cribriform
adj
Cucullated.
adj
Shaped like a cucumber; having the form of a cylinder tapered and rounded at the ends, and possibly curved.
adj
(biology) wedge-shaped.
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denticulate
adj
Cupped or hollowed at both ends.
adj
Having the form of a duct
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farinose
adj
Growing in a bundle, tuft, or close cluster.
n
A small pit or cavity, resembling a cell of a honeycomb
adj
Composed of threads, filamentous, stringy.
adj
Relating to, or composed of, filaments.
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filamentary
adj
Of, pertaining to, containing or resembling a filament or filaments.
adj
Of or relating to a filament; having filaments; filamentous.
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(archaic) filiferous
adj
Like a filament.
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filiform
adj
fringed; jagged; fimbriate
adj
That resembles a fissure
n
(rare) A tube, a pipe, or a hole.
adj
Hollowed like a fistula.
n
Alternative form of fistula [(medicine) An abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels that normally do not connect.]
adj
Of a fistular form; tubular; pipe-shaped.
v
(medicine) to form a fistula
adj
Formed like a fistula; hollow; reed-like.
adj
Resembling a reed; hollow and tubular
adj
flosculous
adj
fornicate; shaped like an arch
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foveolate
adj
Shaped like a funnel.
adj
Having the form of a helix; spiral.
adj
Having radiating branches that themselves have radiating branches
adj
Having the shape of a funnel.
adj
(archaic, rare) infundibular; funnel-shaped
adj
Shaped like a funnel; infundibulated or infundibular
adj
having the shape of a funnel or cone.
adj
Shaped like a teardrop.
adj
Having at least some component segments being lengthened on one side and flattened into circles, making these segments look like a stack of dinner plates.
adj
Resembling a lamella.
n
(countable) A lanceolate form or structure.
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ligulate
adj
Having the shape of a tongue
n
The condition of being longirostrine
adj
Having a curved spine.
adj
Shaped like a handle
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monticulate
adj
Having, or tipped with, a small point or points.
adj
Minutely muricate.
n
Synonym of flabellum (“fan used in religious ceremonies”)
n
The care and maintenance of the fingernails and toenails.
v
To produce nodules.
adj
Inversely clavate; thicker at the base.
adj
Shaped like a navel.
adj
Relating to the Ouroboros, a snake eating its own tail.
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egg-shaped
adj
Shaped like a parabola.
adv
(botany) In a peltate manner.
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pennate
adj
(zoology) open; perforate, as applied to the nostrils of birds
adj
Of or pertaining to pilpul.
adj
Shaped like a pipe; tubular.
n
Alternative form of pyriform. [A pyriform object.]
adj
(medicine, pathology) Having the form of a plexus
n
Polish plait, plica polonica, or plica neuropatica: a disease of the hair in which it becomes twisted and matted together.
adj
vexillate
adj
Hollowed or cupped in front.
adj
Forming filaments.
adj
pulvinate
adj
Alternative form of ramose [Having branches; branching]
adj
Marked with sinuate and irregular furrows.
adj
Having the shape of a wheel.
adj
rugose and punctate
adj
rugulate and reticulate
adj
Furnished with or formed of a sac or sacs.
n
(dentistry) The part of a denture which holds the artificial teeth.
adj
Having the form of a ladder
n
(anatomy) An arrangement of scales.
adj
scutellate
adj
Shaped like the barbed end of a fishhook.
adj
Alternative form of sericeous [Of or relating to silk; consisting of silk; silky.]
adj
Having tooth-like projections on one side, as in a saw.
adj
serrulate
adj
Of a connection of tubes or hoses: shaped like the letter Y.
n
(botany) A structure of tiny apertures present in adjacent sieve walls that enable the movement of fluids inside the phloem.
adj
siliquose
adj
soniferous
adj
(sciences) In the shape of a cartwheel.
adj
Resembling stroma.
adj
(biology) Having a pointed tip, but with a broad or slightly rounded angle
adj
Shaped like a trapezium with an apical depression
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sulcate
adj
Resembling a tent in shape.
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minutely tomentose
adj
minutely torose; shaped like a small torus
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torose
adj
marked by trabeculation; trabeculate
adj
Alternative form of tumular [Consisting of a heap; formed or being in a heap or hillock.]
adj
Alternative form of tumulous [Full of small hills or mounds; hilly; tumulose.]
n
A balloon-like growth in a plant cavity; a tylosis.
adj
uncinate
adj
uncinate; hooked
adj
uncinate
adj
cup-shaped or circumvallate
adj
(archaic) vermiform
adj
Minutely verrucose.
adj
Alternative form of verrucate [Synonym of verrucose]
adj
Having a shape like a wart or warts.
adj
Covered in warts; warty
adj
Shaped like a whorl.
adj
Fashioned into a decorative shape in the form of an animal

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