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styliform

[ stahy-luh-fawrm ]

adjective

  1. having the shape of an ancient style; stylar.


styliform

/ ˈstaɪlɪˌfɔːm /

adjective

  1. zoology shaped like a stylus or bristle

    a styliform antenna

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of styliform1

1570–80; < New Latin stiliformis, equivalent to Latin stil ( us ) stylus + -i- + -formis -form
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Word History and Origins

Origin of styliform1

C16: from New Latin stiliformis, from Latin stylus
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Example Sentences

Sty′lar, pertaining to the pin of a dial; Sty′late, like a style, styliform.

Styliform: in the shape of a stylus: terminating in a long slender point, like the antenna in some Diptera.

As there is no styliform production in Anthoceros, so there is none in ferns.

Mandibles in the male chelate (fig. 158 j), in the female long, styliform.

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