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helioform

helioform adjective: sun-shaped.

Adjective

helioform (comparative more helioform, superlative most helioform)

  1. (uncommon) Sun-shaped.
    • Cruciform and helioform heads occur in cave drawings of otherwise realistic human figures.1986, Wyatt MacGaffey, Religion and Society in Central Africa: The BaKongo of Lower Zaire, page 124 (quoted in Grey Gundaker, Signs of Diaspora/Diaspora of Signs: Literacies, Creolization, and...
    • Isn't it almost always the eye — the most helioform of all the sense organs, as Derrida says citing Plato?2003, Michael Naas, Taking on the Tradition: Jacques Derrida and the Legacies of Deconstruction, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 124

Forms of helioform

comparativemore helioform
superlativemost helioform

Origin of helioform

From helio- + -form.

Questions about helioform

What does helioform mean?
Helioform means sun-shaped.
What part of speech is helioform?
Helioform is an adjective.

Words near helioform in the dictionary

  1. helioelectric
  2. helioelectrical
  3. helioelectricity
  4. helioflagellate
  5. helioflagellates
  6. helioform
  7. Heliogabalan
  8. Heliogabalian
  9. Heliogabalus
  10. heliogeomagnetics
  11. heliogeophysical

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