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Definition of Piliform
1. a. Resembling hairs or down.
Definition of Piliform
1. Adjective. Resembling hair ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Piliform
1. resembling a hair [adj] - See also: hair
Medical Definition of Piliform
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Piliform
Literary usage of Piliform
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs of the American Entomological Society by American Entomological Society (1916)
"Ventro-cephalic margin of cephalic femora with a row of piliform spines, with
two heavy distal spines. Tegmina with discoidal sectors oblique. ..."
2. Transactions of the American Entomological Society by American Entomological Society (1907)
"Head densely punctate and closely set with pale yellow piliform scales, front
scarcely at all concave, occiput carinate. Prothorax scarcely one-third wider ..."
3. Transactions of the American Entomological Society by American Entomological Society (1905)
"41, line 5 from bottom, should read piliform instead of filiform. " 51, line 17
from bottom, should read ducat instead of dorsal. " 54, line 17 from bottom, ..."
4. Species Filicum: Being Descriptions of the Known Ferns, Particularly of Such by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1858)
"Presi says nothing about (he affinities of this with black seta?. Stipes 3 inches
high filiform terete blackish-brown ; villous with piliform articulated ..."
5. The Economy of the Animal Kingdom, Considered Anatomically, Physically, and by Emanuel Swedenborg (1918)
"I compare the small vessels of the medullary substance to the net, and its
irregular globules to the piliform or globular body. ..."
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