filiciform
English
Etymology
From Latin filix (“fern”) + Latin -icis + English -form. Compare French filiciforme.
Adjective
filiciform (comparative more filiciform, superlative most filiciform)
- Shaped like a fern or like the parts of a fern leaf.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for filiciform in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Anagrams
- filiformic