Definition of Styliform

1. a. Having the form of, or resembling, a style, pin, or pen; styloid.

Definition of Styliform

1. Adjective. Having the form of, or resembling, a bristle, pin, or pen; styloid. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Styliform

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Styliform

styled
styleless
stylelessly
stylelessness
stylelessnesses
stylemark
styler
stylers
styles
stylesheet
stylesheets
stylet
stylets
styli
styliferous
styliform (current term)
stylike
styling
stylings
stylion
stylisation
stylise
stylised
styliser
stylisers
stylises
stylish
stylishly
stylishness
stylishnesses

Literary usage of Styliform

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Catalogue of the Specimens of Amphipodous Crustacea in the Collection of the by Charles Spence Bate (1862)
"Fourth and fifth pairs nearly uniform ; basos having the posterior margin rounded, imperfectly crenulated; dactylos straight, styliform. ..."

2. A History of the British Sessile-eyed Crustacea by Charles Spence Bate, John Obadiah Westwood (1868)
"... be removed from Janira, to which genus it was referred by the last-named author, as it wants the long styliform processes at the end of the tail. ..."

3. A Monograph of the Jumping Plant-lice: Or Psyllidæ, of the New World by David Livingston Crawford (1914)
"Genal cones not or scarcely more than half as long as vertex, not strongly divergent; female genital segment very elongate and styliform. e1. ..."

4. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1865)
"... of the abdominal appendages styliform, and the other five ... and general physiognomy, the single pair of styliform appendages of the ..."

5. A Manual of the Infusoria: Including a Description of All Known Flagellate by William Saville-Kent (1880)
"... which may be said to consist of two portions—an anterior, somewhat rounded mass, in apposition with a much elongated, styliform posterior portion. ..."

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