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Definition of Bacciform
1. a. Having the form of a berry.
Definition of Bacciform
1. Adjective. Having the form of a berry. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bacciform
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Bacciform
1. Berry-shaped. Origin: L. Bacca, berry (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bacciform
Literary usage of Bacciform
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Index Filicum: a Synopsis, with Characters, of the Genera, Extensively by Thomas Moore (1857)
"Fronds dissimilar, the sterile pinnato-pinnatifid, the fertile bi-pinnate ; the
pinnules contracted incurved, sub-globose, or bacciform. Rhizome creeping. ..."
2. Biennial Report by California Dept. of Agriculture, California State Commission of Horticulture (1890)
"Fruit fleshy, drupaceous (of the form of a drupe) or bacciform (of the form of
a berry); indehiscent (not opening ..."
3. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1805)
"Fruit often capsular, sometimes bacciform ; cells equal in number to that of the
styles, with several valves formed by the turning back of their borders. ..."
4. Ferns: British and Exotic by E J. Lowe (1862)
"The contractions of the segments form a unilateral raceme, oblong, ovate, and
bacciform, concealing the sori. Fronds lateral, adherent to a creeping rhizoma ..."
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