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querciform

querciform adjective: resembling an oak: in particular, resembling the (lobed) leaf of an oak.

Adjective

querciform (not comparable)

  1. (especially, uncommon) Resembling an oak: in particular, resembling the (lobed) leaf of an oak.
    • AGLAOMORPHIA, [...] Sori non-indusiate, rotundate, [...] Fronds coriaceous, dimorphous, the sterile sessile querciform, brown rigid; [...]1857, Thomas Moore, Index Filicum: A Synopsis, with Characters, of the Genera, and an Enumeration of the Species of Ferns : with Synonymes, References
    • DYNARIA. A genus of polypodiaceous ferns, generally distinguishable by the productino of two separate kinds of fronds: the one pinnate or pinnatifid in the usual way, [...] the other [...] lobed at the edge so as to resemble the leaf of an oak, whence they are called querciform. [...] its dwarfed...1866, John Lindley, Thomas Moore, The Treasury of Botany: A Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom ; with which is Incorporated a Glossary of Botanical Terms, page 431

Examples of querciform in a sentence

  • DEBEY has recently published a fine memoir on some querciform leaves found in the sand rocks of Aix-la-Chapelle, Rhenish Prussia.1883, Report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories, page 9:
  • Querciform leaves deeply dentate, lower surface and stems with scattered large 1 cm. spines.1969, Plant Inventory, page 271:

Origin of querciform

Either formed in English from Latin quercus (“oak”) + -iform, parallel to taxonomic Latin querciformis, or formed in (taxonomic) Latin and borrowed into English.

Questions about querciform

What does querciform mean?
Querciform means resembling an oak: in particular, resembling the (lobed) leaf of an oak.
How do you use querciform in a sentence?
DEBEY has recently published a fine memoir on some querciform leaves found in the sand rocks of Aix-la-Chapelle, Rhenish Prussia.
What part of speech is querciform?
Querciform is an adjective.

Words near querciform in the dictionary

  1. quercetins
  2. quercetum
  3. quercetums
  4. quercic acid
  5. quercicobufagin
  6. querciform
  7. quercimeric acid
  8. quercimeritrin
  9. quercin
  10. quercine
  11. quercinic acid

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