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Etymology

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From elytron +‎ -iform.

Adjective

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elytriform (comparative more elytriform, superlative most elytriform)

  1. (zoology) Having the form or structure of an elytron.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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