nautiform

comparative more nautiform · superlative most nautiform

1. Shaped like the hull of a ship.

   […] inner whorl nautiform, ca. 2.2 mm; synandrium with 9 anthers. Female flowers not seen. Infructescences borne on old stems, stout, carpophores stout, […]

   2008, Zhengyi Wu, Peter H. Raven, Missouri Botanical Garden, Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae, Missouri Botanical Garden Press, page 6

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   On the island of the Tiber towered the mast-like obelisk of the huge nautiform temple of Aesculapius, whose serpent there deposited, had stayed the plague in the fifth century of Rome.

   1854, Bibliotheca sacra: a theological quarterly, page 807

   […] nautiform, 15 cm long; male flowers small, mixing with bristle-shaped bractlets. Petals 3, similarly as calyx, smaller. Stamens 3, uniting to form a cylindrical structure; anthers basifixed, linear, 2-celled[…]

   1988, Peng Lin, Mangrove Vegetation, page 58