napiform
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin nāpus (“turnip”) + -form.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
napiform (comparative more napiform, superlative most napiform)
- (botany) Shaped like a turnip; spherical at the top, but with a tapering bottom.
- 2007, K. Kubitzki, editor, The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, volume IX, page 265:
- The primary root is transformed into an perennating storage root, which is tuberous or napiform and then often branched
Translations edit
shaped like a turnip
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