mitriform
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editmitriform (comparative more mitriform, superlative most mitriform)
- Having the form of a miter, or peaked cap.[1]
- 1844, Sir James Edward Smith, The English Flora, volume 1, page 29:
- The crisped leaves, with the different nature of the peristome and mitriform calyptra, multifid at the base, are, however, certain marks of distinction.
- (botany) Conical, and somewhat dilated at the base.
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edit- ^ “mitriform”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.