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biform

ADJECTIVE
  1. having or combining two forms
    the biform body of a mermaid
    a biform crystal

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  • It has subsequently been interpreted as a tubiform green alga and as a cyanobacterium, and Ordovician specimens that are evidently Halysis have been referred to the filamentous green alga Oedogonium Link, 1820.
  • The project's objective was the expansion of production of fractional cubiform broken natural stones at the deposit.
  • At each exterior angle of the imperfect polygon was a column with a cubiform capital. Two Summers in Guyenne
  • These movements are termed amoebiform, because they quite resemble the movements of a small animalcule which is named amoeba. Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky
  • It has been suggested that columbids are closely related to gamebirds, buttonquails, parrots, shorebirds and sandgrouse (sandgrouse are sometimes included in the order Columbiformes).
  • He makes portraits, too -- portraits of persons with cubic hands and cubic feet, who are smoking cubed cigarettes and have solid cubiform heads. Cobb's Bill-of-Fare
  • The most unevenly printed, and therefore, I suppose, the primitial gem, is the _Tractatus de mendicitate spirituali_, in which not only rubiform capitals, but whole words, have been inserted by a chirographer. Notes and Queries, Number 71, March 8, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
  • The screen, with its cubiform capitals and unending knot ornamentation, is an example of church fittings.
  • Halysis is distinguished from the Microproblematicum Flabellia by not being tubiform.
  • Spathes are 1/8 to 1/3 inch long, sessile or pedicellate, green, cymbiform, with subulate tips. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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