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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin morus (“mulberry”) + -form.
Adjective
moriform (comparative more moriform, superlative most moriform)
- (botany) Mulberry-like.
- 1985, Rupert C. Barneby, The Genus Mimosa (Mimosaceae) in Bahia, Brazil: New Taxa and Nomenclatural Adjustments, in Brittonia, vol. 37, no. 2
- A moriform (blackberry-like) capitulum is one in which the flower-buds are longer than the interfloral bracts prior to anthesis; when the buds are concealed prior to anthesis by imbricated bracts or by interlocking bracteal setae the capitulum is termed conelike.