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styliform

[ stahy-luh-fawrm ]

adjective

  1. having the shape of an ancient style; stylar.

styliform

/ ˈٲɪɪˌɔː /

adjective

  1. zoology shaped like a stylus or bristle

    a styliform antenna

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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of styliform1

1570–80; < New Latin stiliformis, equivalent to Latin stil ( us ) stylus + -i- + -formis -form
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of styliform1

C16: from New Latin stiliformis, from Latin stylus
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Styliform: in the shape of a stylus: terminating in a long slender point, like the antenna in some Diptera.

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As there is no styliform production in Anthoceros, so there is none in ferns. 

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