Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Twisted; in zoology, moniliform; resembling a string of beads.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Nat. Hist.) Swelled out at intervals like a knotted cord.

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  • adjective Swelling out at intervals like a knotted cord.

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