dolabriform

English

Etymology

From Latin dolabra (“mattock”) (from dolo (“hew”)) + -iform.

Adjective

dolabriform (comparative more dolabriform, superlative most dolabriform)

Shaped like the head of an axe or hatchet.
Some leaves, and certain organs in shellfish, are dolabriform.

Translations

shaped like the head of an axe or hatchet

French: dolabriforme (fr)
German: hobelformig
Italian: acettiforme

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “dolabriform”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)