Cymbiform

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  • adj. Shaped like a boat.
  • adj. Elongated and having the upper surface decidedly concave, as in the glumes of many grasses.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Shaped like a boat; (Bot.) elongated and having the upper surface decidedly concave, as the glumes of many grasses.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Boat-shaped; longer than broad, convex, and keeled like the bottom of a boat: applied to the elytra and other parts of insects, to seeds and leaves of plants, diatoms, and spores of fungi, and also to a bone of the foot usually called the scaphoid bone. See scaphoid. Also cymbæform.
    • Word Usage
    "The _second glume_ is cymbiform, compressed laterally, with a dorsal hyaline ciliate wing to the keel, 5 - to"
     
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