cuniculiform

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English

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Etymology

From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting New Latin combining forms: cunicul +‎ -iform.

Adjective

cuniculiform (comparative more cuniculiform, superlative most cuniculiform)

  1. Synonym of rabbitlike.
    • 1997, “Abstract of Papers. Fifty-Seventh Annual Meeting, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology.”, in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, vol. 17, no. 3, 1997, pp. A1–93.:
      Cuniculiform structures in the Orellan Member of the White River Formation near. Douglas, Wyoming are vertebrate burrows []
    • 2004, Rutkowski et al., “New taxa and new combinations in Mesoamerican Stenorrhynchidinae (Orchidaceae, Spirantheae)”, in Annales Botanici Fennici, page 484:
      [] strongly reduced column foot; cuniculiform spur; basally nearly erect or only slightly arcuate lip, []
    • 2006, Théophile de Giraud, The Art of Guillotining Procreators: An Anti-Natalist Manifesto:
      I do not perceive there a frightened call to cuniculiform fecundity.