cymbiform

English edit

Etymology edit

Latin cymba (“boat”), +‎ -iform.

Adjective edit

cymbiform (comparative more cymbiform, superlative most cymbiform)

Shaped like a boat.
(botany) Elongated and having the upper surface decidedly concave, as in the glumes of many grasses.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “cymbiform”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)