Word.ws English Dictionary

nontiered

nontiered adjective: lacking tiers or organized ranks.

Adjective

nontiered (not comparable)

  1. Lacking tiers or organized ranks.
    • The Chilean Amphijubula Schust. (Schuster, 1970a) which has the facies of a small Frullania and agrees with Frullania in leaf insertion and branching, has a nontiered seta with 16 epidermal cell rows surrounding 4 inner rows.1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 6

Origin of nontiered

From non- + tiered.

Questions about nontiered

What does nontiered mean?
Nontiered means lacking tiers or organized ranks.
What part of speech is nontiered?
Nontiered is an adjective.

Words near nontiered in the dictionary

  1. nonthyroidal
  2. nonticket
  3. nonticketed
  4. nonticking
  5. nontidal
  6. nontiered
  7. nontiled
  8. nontillable
  9. nontilted
  10. nontilting
  11. nontimber

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: nontiered (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “nontiered.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/nontiered. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.