moriform

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin morus (“mulberry”) +‎ -form.

Adjective

moriform (comparative more moriform, superlative most moriform)

1. (botany) Mulberry-like.
   • 1985, Rupert C. Barneby, The Genus Mimosa (Mimosaceae) in Bahia, Brazil: New Taxa and Nomenclatural Adjustments, in Brittonia, vol. 37, no. 2

     A moriform (blackberry-like) capitulum is one in which the flower-buds are longer than the interfloral bracts prior to anthesis; when the buds are concealed prior to anthesis by imbricated bracts or by interlocking bracteal setae the capitulum is termed conelike.