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membraniporiform

membraniporiform adjective: having colonies that form encrusting sheets.

Adjective

membraniporiform (not comparable)

  1. Having colonies that form encrusting sheets.
    • [M]any species having eschariform zoaria in quiet water are able to assume the membraniporiform habitus in strongly agitated water.1963, Alan H. Cheetham, Late Eocene Zoogeography of the Eastern Gulf Coast Region, page 30
    • All species having non-fenestrate, rigidly erect colonies, with either subcylindrical or bilaminate trunks and branches (vinculariiform and eschariform colonies, respectively), or closely encrusting (membraniporiform) colonies were regarded as unstable.1971, Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology, page 6

Questions about membraniporiform

What does membraniporiform mean?
Membraniporiform means having colonies that form encrusting sheets.
What part of speech is membraniporiform?
Membraniporiform is an adjective.

Words near membraniporiform in the dictionary

  1. membranic
  2. membraniferous
  3. membraniform
  4. membraniporid
  5. membraniporids
  6. membraniporiform
  7. membranized
  8. membrano-
  9. membranocartilaginous
  10. membranogenesis
  11. membranogenic

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