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moniliform

[ moh-nil-uh-fawrm ]

adjective

  1. Botany, Zoology. consisting of or characterized by a series of beadlike swellings alternating with contractions, as certain roots or stems.
  2. resembling a string of beads in shape.


moniliform

/ ³¾É’ˈ²Ôɪ±ôɪˌ´Úɔ˳¾ /

adjective

  1. biology shaped like a string of beads

    moniliform fungi

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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of moniliform1

1795–1805; < Latin ³¾´Ç²ÔÄ«±ô¾±- (stem of ³¾´Ç²ÔÄ«±ô±ð necklace) + -form
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of moniliform1

C19: from New Latin ³¾´Ç²ÔÄ«±ô¾±´Ú´Ç°ù³¾¾±²õ, from Latin ³¾´Ç²ÔÄ«±ô±ð necklace + forma shape
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Pod elongated, several-seeded, continuous, or constricted between the seeds and moniliform.

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He has never seen them adhere in moniliform chains nor massed as zoogl�a.

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Moniliform, mÅ-nil′i-form, adj. like a string of beads.

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The other name, moniliform, means a bead-like necklace; and this was given it because the threads that make the rosettes look like strings of small pearly-green beads.

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To the naked eye it looks like green slime, and is called "frog's spawn;" but the microscope shows us that it is a lovely plant, and some wise man has given us a long fine name to call it by if we choose—Batrachospermum moniliform.

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