nautiform

English

Etymology

Ancient Greek ναυτικός (nautikós) +‎ -iform

Adjective

nautiform (comparative more nautiform, superlative most nautiform)

1. Shaped like the hull of a ship.
   • 1854, Bibliotheca sacra: a theological quarterly, page 807:

     On the island of the Tiber towered the mast-like obelisk of the huge nautiform temple of Aesculapius, whose serpent there deposited, had stayed the plague in the fifth century of Rome.

   • 1988, Peng Lin, Mangrove Vegetation, page 58:

     […] nautiform, 15 cm long; male flowers small, mixing with bristle-shaped bractlets. Petals 3, similarly as calyx, smaller. Stamens 3, uniting to form a cylindrical structure; anthers basifixed, linear, 2-celled […]

   • 2008, Zhengyi Wu, Peter H. Raven, Missouri Botanical Garden, Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae, Missouri Botanical Garden Press, page 6:

     […] inner whorl nautiform, ca. 2.2 mm; synandrium with 9 anthers. Female flowers not seen. Infructescences borne on old stems, stout, carpophores stout,  […]

References

• “nautiform”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.