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hordeiform

hordeiform adjective: resembling the shape of barley grains.

Adjective

hordeiform (comparative more hordeiform, superlative most hordeiform)

  1. (rare) Resembling the shape of barley grains.
    • These hordeiform appendices are sometimes, it is true, of considerable length; but in what manner are they susceptible of luxation?1829 June, The Monthly Journal of Foreign Medicine, volume III, Philadelphia, P.A.: E. Littell & Brother, page 440, column 1

Forms of hordeiform

comparativemore hordeiform
superlativemost hordeiform

Origin of hordeiform

From Latin hordeum (“barley”) + -iform.

Questions about hordeiform

What does hordeiform mean?
Hordeiform means resembling the shape of barley grains.
What part of speech is hordeiform?
Hordeiform is an adjective.

Words near hordeiform in the dictionary

  1. horde mode
  2. horde modes
  3. hordeaceous
  4. horded
  5. hordeic acid
  6. hordeiform
  7. hordein
  8. hordeing
  9. hordeins
  10. hordeivirus
  11. hordeiviruses

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