Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having the form of a crater; conically hollowed; formed like a wine-glass without the base, or nearly like an inverted truncate cone with an excavated base.

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

  • adjective (Bot.) Having the form of a shallow bowl; -- said of a corolla.

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  • adjective botany Having the form of a shallow bowl.

Etymologies

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Latin cratera + -form.

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Examples

  • Both above and below, this river passes through a majestic canon, and its neighbourhood abounds in small cones, some with crateriform cavities at the top, some broken down, and others, apparently of great age, wooded to their summits.

    The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

  • An hour of very severe work, and energetic use of the knife on the part of the Aino, took me to the top of one of these through a mass of entangled and gigantic vegetation, and I was amply repaid by finding a deep, well-defined crateriform cavity of great depth, with its sides richly clothed with vegetation, closely resembling some of the old cones in the island of Kauai.

    Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

  • There appear to me to be insuperable objections to this view: on the other hand, I can hardly believe, in this and in some other cases, that these marginal crateriform mountains are merely the basal remnants of immense volcanos, of which the summits either have been blown off or swallowed up in subterranean abysses.

    Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

  • Instead of being a regular, round-headed cone, like the Jebel el-Abyaz for instance, the summit was distinctly crateriform.

    The Land of Midian 2003

  • Mauritius, beautiful appearance of — Great crateriform ring of mountains — Hindoos — St. Helena —

    Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

  • Reaching the crateriform summit, we found that the head of the cone had either “caved in,” or had been carried off bodily to be worked.

    The Land of Midian 2003

  • Mauritius, beautiful appearance of — Great crateriform ring of mountains — Hindoos — St. Helena —

    Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

  • There appear to me to be insuperable objections to this view: on the other hand, I can hardly believe, in this and in some other cases, that these marginal crateriform mountains are merely the basal remnants of immense volcanos, of which the summits either have been blown off or swallowed up in subterranean abysses.

    Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

  • There appears to me to be insuperable objections to this view: on the other hand, I can hardly believe, in this and in some other cases, that these marginal crateriform mountains are merely the basal remnants of immense volcanos, of which the summits either have been blown off, or swallowed up in subterranean abysses.

    Chapter XXI 1909

  • Mauritius, beautiful appearance of—Great crateriform ring of Mountains—Hindoos—St.

    Chapter XXI 1909

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