Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Shaped like a kidney.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the form or shape of the human kidney; kidney-form; bean-shaped; in botany (when said of flat organs), having the outline of a longitudinal section through a kidney (see cut under
kidney-shaped ).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having the form or shape of a kidney
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany, of leaves Shaped like a
kidney , with the petiole attached at the notch.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of a leaf or bean shape) resembling the shape of kidney
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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A characteristic morphologic feature of hair in this syndrome is a triangular to reniform to heart shape on cross-sections, and a groove, canal or flattening along the entire length of the hair in at least 50% of hairs examined by scanning electron microscopy.
Boing Boing 2008
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In the USA, several species of nematodes are also of importance, in the southern states five species of root-knot nematodes (Meloidogyne spp.) cause considerable losses, while the reniform nematodes (Rotylenchus reniformis) also cause severe damage in some areas.
Chapter 30 1987
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It takes place normally, to a slight extent, in certain cultivated forms of cotton, wherein the seeds are aggregated together into a reniform mass, whence the term kidney cotton.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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Fore wings slightly hooked, with an interior undulating blackish-brown line; orbicular mark black, punctiform; reniform white, black-bordered, forming a triangular spot and an anterior point; a small exterior white costa, with mark.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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The flowers are one-petaled, purple, and produced on short stems in the axils of the branches; the fruit is often somewhat oblong, but exceedingly variable in form, size, and color; the seeds are small, yellowish, reniform, flattened, and retain their germinative properties seven years.
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Fore wings with the speckles mostly confluent in the disk, mostly wanting along the interior and exterior borders; several black and brown speckles, some of which border the large reniform mark.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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Fore wings acute; orbicular mark black, punctiform; reniform narrow, brown, bordered, excavated on the outer side; exterior border slightly convex.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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Fore wings rectangular at the tips; exterior border slightly bent; its fore part not oblique; orbicular and reniform marks indistinct.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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Fore wings very acute; exterior border extremely oblique; reniform mark brown, very slender.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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Fore wings slightly rounded at the tips, very oblique along the exterior border; a blackish band near the base, abbreviated hindward; a large blackish spot on the reniform mark, and a diffuse blackish spot near the tip of the costa; exterior and submarginal lines brown, double, denticulated, with the space along their borders somewhat clouded.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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