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Webster 1913 Edition
Napiform
Na′pi-form
,Adj.
(Bot.)
Turnip-shaped; large and round in the upper part, and very slender below.
Definition 2024
napiform
napiform
English
Adjective
napiform (comparative more napiform, superlative most napiform)
- (botany) Shaped like a turnip; spherical at the top, but with a tapering bottom.
- 2007 K. Kubitzki (ed.), The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, volume IX, page 265
- The primary root is transformed into an perennating storage root, which is tuberous or napiform and then often branched
- 2007 K. Kubitzki (ed.), The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, volume IX, page 265
Translations
shaped like a turnip
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