Definitions
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.
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biocon commented on the word calathiform
Calathiform means cup-shaped; of somewhat hemispherical outline (Oxford English Dictionary).
December 1, 2011