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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In mycology, same as dictyoid.
  • In botany, resembling the arrangement of the bricks in the walls of a house: applied to the cellular tissue constituting the medullary rays in plants, the epidermis of the leaves of grasses, etc.
  • Mouse-like or murine in form; myomorphic.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Bot.) Resembling courses of bricks or stones in squareness and regular arrangement.

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  • adjective botany Resembling courses of bricks or stones in squareness and regular arrangement.

Etymologies

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Latin murus a wall + -form.

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