helioform

helioform

English

Etymology

helio- +‎ -form

Adjective

helioform (comparative more helioform, superlative most helioform)

1. (uncommon) Sun-shaped.
   • 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), →ISBN, page 90):

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

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

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

   • 2009, David Foster Wallace, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men: Stories, Little, Brown and Company (2009), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

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