Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Like a roof in form or use; covering, or forming a cover; lid-like; specifically, in entomology, ridged in the middle and sloping down on each side: as, the tectiform elytra of some homopterous insects.
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- adjective biology, anthropology
Roof -shaped;sloping downwards on twosides from a raised centralridge . - noun anthropology A type of cave-painting or
engraving in the shape of an upward-pointingwedge orarrow .
Etymologies
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From New Latin tēctiformis ("roof-shaped"), from tēctum ("roof") + fōrma.
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