Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the form of a papilla; shaped like or resembling a papilla; mammilliform.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Shaped like a papilla; mammilliform.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Shaped like a
papilla .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective shaped like a papilla
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Examples
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The middle layer, thicker and more transparent, forms a homogeneous membrana propria, and presents on its internal surface, especially in the semicircular ducts, numerous papilliform projections, which, on the addition of acetic acid, exhibit an appearance of longitudinal fibrillation.
X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 1d. 4. The Internal Ear or Labyrinth 1918
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The body is pyriform, broadly truncate on the anterior end, in the middle of which rises a papilliform process (Schnabel).
Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901 1906
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