paliform

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English

Etymology

From palus +‎ -iform.

Adjective

paliform (comparative more paliform, superlative most paliform)

  1. (zoology) Resembling a palus.
    the paliform lobes of the septa in corals

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for paliform”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)