napiform

English

WOTD – 29 April 2010

Etymology

From Latin nāpus (“turnip”) +‎ -form.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈneɪp.ɪ.fɔːm/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈneɪ.pɪ.fɔɹm/

Adjective

napiform (comparative more napiform, superlative most napiform)

1. (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

shaped like a turnip

• Belarusian: рэпчаты (repčaty)
• Dutch: koolachtig
• Estonian: naerikujuline
• Finnish: naurismainen
• French: napiforme (fr)
• Galician: napiforme (gl)
• German: rübenförmig
• Greek: γογγυλοειδής (gongyloeidís)
• Hungarian: répaszerű
• Lithuanian: ropinis
• Russian: репови́дный (repovídnyj), репообра́зный (repoobráznyj), (dated, rare) ре́пчатый (ru) (répčatyj)
• Ukrainian: ріпчастий (ripčastyj)