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nautiform

nautiform adjective: shaped like the hull of a ship.

Adjective

nautiform (comparative more nautiform, superlative most nautiform)

  1. Shaped like the hull of a ship.
    • On the island of the Tiber towered the mast-like obelisk of the huge nautiform temple of Aesculapius, whose serpent there deposited, had stayed the plague in the fifth century of Rome.1854, Bibliotheca sacra: a theological quarterly, page 807
    • […] nautiform, 15 cm long; male flowers small, mixing with bristle-shaped bractlets. Petals 3, similarly as calyx, smaller. Stamens 3, uniting to form a cylindrical structure; anthers basifixed, linear, 2-celled[…]1988, Peng Lin, Mangrove Vegetation, page 58

Forms of nautiform

comparativemore nautiform
superlativemost nautiform

Origin of nautiform

From Ancient Greek ναυτικός (nautikós) + -iform.

Questions about nautiform

What does nautiform mean?
Nautiform means shaped like the hull of a ship.
What part of speech is nautiform?
Nautiform is an adjective.

Words near nautiform in the dictionary

  1. nauticality
  2. nautically
  3. nauticalness
  4. nauticals
  5. nautics
  6. nautiform
  7. nautilaceous
  8. nautili
  9. nautilicone
  10. nautilicones
  11. nautiliconic

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