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Webster 1913 Edition


Mummiform

Mum′mi-form

,
Adj.
[
Mummy
+
-form
.]
Having some resemblance to a mummy; – in Zoology, said of the pupae of certain insects.

Definition 2024


mummiform

mummiform

English

Adjective

mummiform (not comparable)

  1. Having the shape of a mummy. [from 19th c.]
    • 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
      Its mummiform torso is covered with bull testicles or breasts in canine profusion.
    • 1996, LaMar C. Berrett, Discovering the World of the Bible (page 296)
      After opening shrines, a stone sarcophagus, and mummiform coffins, they finally viewed the mummified body of Tutankhamon.