Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Boat-shaped; longer than broad, convex, and keeled like the bottom of a boat: applied to the elytra and other parts of insects, to seeds and leaves of plants, diatoms, and spores of fungi, and also to a bone of the foot usually called the scaphoid bone. See
scaphoid . Alsocymbæform .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Shaped like a boat; (Bot.) elongated and having the upper surface decidedly concave, as the glumes of many grasses.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Shaped like a
boat . - adjective botany Elongated and having the upper surface decidedly
concave , as in theglumes of manygrasses .
Etymologies
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Latin cymba boat.
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Examples
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The _second glume_ is cymbiform, compressed laterally, with a dorsal hyaline ciliate wing to the keel, 5 - to
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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Spathes are 1/8 to 1/3 inch long, sessile or pedicellate, green, cymbiform, with subulate tips.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The _second glume_ is lanceolate, cymbiform, acute or acuminate, 3-nerved, margins hyaline, ciliate, as long as the first chartaceous and the keel with a serrulate wing above the middle.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
jmjarmstrong commented on the word cymbiform
JM thinks about going down to the sea in a cymbiform concept.
October 24, 2009
hernesheir commented on the word cymbiform
Also cymbæform.
July 9, 2010