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Definition of Muriform
1. a. Resembling courses of bricks or stones in squareness and regular arrangement; as, a muriform variety of cellular tissue.
Definition of Muriform
1. Adjective. (botany) Resembling courses of bricks or stones in squareness and regular arrangement. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Muriform
1. with cells arranged like bricks in a wall [adj]
Medical Definition of Muriform
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Muriform
Literary usage of Muriform
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of British Lichens: Containing Descriptions of All the Species and by William Mudd (1861)
"... 8 spored ; spores somewhat ovate, or oblongo-ventricose, the extremities more
or less attenuated, irregularly muriform-multilocular, ..."
2. Genera Lichenum: An Arrangement of the North American Lichens by Edward Tuckerman (1872)
"... a single species; — C. flaccidum offering, in a word, as will be seen below,
unmistakable exhibitions of both the acicular and the muriform spore-types. ..."
3. Letters on the Diseases of Plants by Nathan Augustus Cobb (1904)
"The Alternaria was in all respects 4-celled, not muriform. of the same form as
that just ... of the orange an(Ji l1 j 6 to 7 celled, muriform. shown in Fig. ..."
4. British Fungus-flora: A Classified Text-book of Mycology by George. Massee (1895)
"If the spores are truly muriform at maturity, the present species would form the
type of a new genus, which, following custom, would be called ..."
5. A Synopsis of the North American Lichens by Edward Tuckerman (1888)
"Spores ellipsoid, muriform-multilocular, 14-28 by 8-14 mic., ... Spores ovoid-oblong,
4-6-locular, sub-muriform, the middle cells being more or less divided ..."
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