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adeoniform

adeoniform adjective: resembling the fossil bryozoan Adeona, especially in forming a colony that is lobate and bilamellar.

Adjective

adeoniform (not comparable)

  1. Resembling the fossil bryozoan Adeona, especially in forming a colony that is lobate and bilamellar.
    • In both faunas, the dominant zoarial types are catenicelliform, followed by the cellariiform, adeoniform, and vinculariiform.1969, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project (page 812)
    • The Aliso Viejo cheilostome branches represent the adeoniform (originally included within the vinculariiform) zoarial growth form, which today occurs predominantly on deeper shelf […] bottoms, in quiet water with slow sedimentation […]1981, Gilbert Powell Larwood, Claus Nielsen, Recent and Fossil Bryozoa: Papers Presented at the 5th International Conference on Bryozoa, Durham, 1980, page 71

Questions about adeoniform

What does adeoniform mean?
Adeoniform means resembling the fossil bryozoan Adeona, especially in forming a colony that is lobate and bilamellar.
What part of speech is adeoniform?
Adeoniform is an adjective.

Words near adeoniform in the dictionary

  1. adenylyltransferases
  2. adeomatosis
  3. adeomatous
  4. adeonid
  5. adeonids
  6. adeoniform
  7. adepescent
  8. adephagan
  9. adephagans
  10. Adephagia
  11. adephagous

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