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Definition of Flabelliform
1. a. Having the form of a fan; fan-shaped; flabellate.
Definition of Flabelliform
1. Adjective. Shaped like a fan; flabellate ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Flabelliform
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flabelliform
Literary usage of Flabelliform
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Botany of the Northern and Middle States: Or, A Description of the Plants by Lewis Caleb Beck (1833)
"flabelliform, spreading like a. fan. Flexuous, serpentine or zigzag. Floral lea/,
see bract. Follicle, 150. Floret, a little flower, one in an aggregate or ..."
2. Botany of the Southern States by John Darby (1860)
"Leaves flabelliform, -with the stipes intermingled with long thorns from the ...
Leaves palmate, flabelliform, 5—6 feet in length, crowded at the summit of ..."
3. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1862)
"These latter are (2nd) the Secondary plates, lappets of similar calcareous sheets
attached to the outer edge of the primary plates; (3rd) the flabelliform ..."
4. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1867)
"... nor provided with a flabelliform appendage, or a palp, ... and between each
bundle the flabelliform appendage of the foot situated below. ..."
5. Report of the Annual Meeting (1877)
"... rather than vary their name with every succeeding appendage. Thus the flabelliform
appendage invariably springs from the coxa or first joint, ..."
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