cuniculiform
English edit
Etymology edit
From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting New Latin combining forms: cunicul + -iform.
Adjective edit
cuniculiform (comparative more cuniculiform, superlative most cuniculiform)
- Synonym of rabbitlike.
- 1997, “Abstract of Papers. Fifty-Seventh Annual Meeting, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology.”, in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, vol. 17, no. 3, 1997, pp. A1–93.[1]:
- Cuniculiform structures in the Orellan Member of the White River Formation near. Douglas, Wyoming are vertebrate burrows […]
- 2004, Rutkowski et al., “New taxa and new combinations in Mesoamerican Stenorrhynchidinae (Orchidaceae, Spirantheae)”, in Annales Botanici Fennici[2], page 484:
- […] strongly reduced column foot; cuniculiform spur; basally nearly erect or only slightly arcuate lip, […]
- 2006, Théophile de Giraud, The Art of Guillotining Procreators: An Anti-Natalist Manifesto[3]:
- I do not perceive there a frightened call to cuniculiform fecundity.