napiform

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English

Etymology

From Latin nāpus (turnip) +‎ -form.

Pronunciation

Adjective

napiform (comparative more napiform, superlative most napiform)

  1. (botany) Shaped like a turnip; spherical at the top, but with a tapering bottom.
    • 2007, K. Kubitzki, editor, The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, volume IX, page 265:
      The primary root is transformed into an perennating storage root, which is tuberous or napiform and then often branched

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