Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Like or likened to buttocks, as the umbones of a shell: as, the natiform tubercles of the brain.

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  • adjective Resembling or having the form of buttocks.

Etymologies

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First attested in 1681; formed as the Latin natis (“rump”, “buttocks”; from whose plural derives the English nates, “buttocks”, “haunches”) + the English -i- +‎ -form.

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  • natiform – resembling the buttocks

    July 27, 2008