filiciform
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin filix (“fern”) + Latin -icis + English -form. Compare French filiciforme.
Adjective edit
filiciform (comparative more filiciform, superlative most filiciform)
- Shaped like a fern or like the parts of a fern leaf.
- 1822, William Daniel Conybeare, William Phillips, Outlines of the Geology of England and Wales:
- Filiciform leaves
References edit
- “filiciform”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.