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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In botany and zoology, hemispherical or concave, like a bowl or cup.

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  • He scouted the forest in a jittery spiral until he found some accumulators of the calathiform sort.

    Explorations ANDERSON, Poul 1981

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  • Calathiform means cup-shaped; of somewhat hemispherical outline (Oxford English Dictionary).

    December 1, 2011