helioform

comparative more helioform · superlative most helioform

1. uncommonSun-shaped.

   Cruciform and helioform heads occur in cave drawings of otherwise realistic human figures.

   1986, Wyatt MacGaffey, Religion and Society in Central Africa: The BaKongo of Lower Zaire, page 124 (quoted in Grey Gundaker, Signs of Diaspora/Diaspora of Signs: Literacies, Creolization, and Vernacular Practice in African America, Oxford University Press (1998), page 90)

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   Isn't it almost always the eye — the most helioform of all the sense organs, as Derrida says citing Plato?

   2003, Michael Naas, Taking on the Tradition: Jacques Derrida and the Legacies of Deconstruction, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 124

   […] (i.e., the respectful but assertive depressed person) would prefer it if the therapist would simply look openly up at the helioform clock […]

   2009, David Foster Wallace, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men: Stories, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN