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bell-shaped |
= campanulate |
solid shape |
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Circular in cross-section, inflated proximally, thence broadening gradually to a flared distal portion. |
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squamiform |
= scale-like |
solid shape |
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Isodiametric to elongate in broad outline, relatively very thin, and planate to moderately concave-convex. |
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hook-shaped |
= unciform |
solid shape |
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Very slenderly elongate with a more or less straight proximal portion and a recurved terminal portion, the whole resembling a hook. |
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falcate 2 |
= sickle-shaped |
solid shape |
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Elongate, strongly compressed, and arcuate in the plane of compression, the two faces more or less plane and parallel, the degree of curvature decreasing distally or not; like a sickle blade. |
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furcate |
= forked; > bifurcate |
solid shape |
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Having two or more terminal, antrorse branches or divisions arising from a common point or level, like the prongs of a fork. |
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botuliform |
= sausage-shaped |
solid shape |
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Arcuately cylindric with rounded ends. |
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cordiform |
= heart-shaped |
solid shape |
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Having two rounded basal lobes, broadest near the base and fairly regularly attenuate to an essentially angular apex; like the stylized form of a heart. See also obcordiform. |
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flexed |
= bent |
solid shape |
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Having an abrupt bend at some point along its length. See also declinate (inclinate), geniculate (kneed), inflexed, reflexed. |
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grumous |
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solid shape |
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Having an external aspect like a cluster of grains, basically convex overall. |
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bellied |
= ventricose |
solid shape |
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Bulging unilaterally near the middle, as though with a belly. |
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obterete |
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solid shape |
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Inversely terete. |
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campanulate |
= bell-shaped |
solid shape |
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Circular in transverse section, inflated proximally, thence broadening gradually to a flared distal portion. |
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strap-shaped |
= liguliform, lorate |
solid shape |
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Elongate and relatively thin with the opposite faces more or less plane and moderately narrow, their edges more or less straight and parallel over most of their length; resembling a strap. |
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forked |
= furcate; > bifurcate |
solid shape |
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Having two or more terminal, antrorse branches or divisions arising from a common point or level, like the prongs of a fork. |
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bent |
= flexed |
solid shape |
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Having an abrupt bend at some point along its length. See also declinate (inclinate), geniculate (kneed), inflexed, reflexed. |
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prolate |
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solid shape |
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Symmetrically elongate parallel to the developmental or polar axis. |
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subrotund |
= subglobose, suborbicular, subspheric(al), subspheroid(al) |
solid shape |
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Broadly ellipsoid with a length:width ratio closely approaching 1:1; almost rotund, slightly longer than broad. |
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cuboid |
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solid shape |
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Generally but not strictly cubic; more or less equilaterally six-sided, each side basically square. |
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fan-shaped |
= flabellate, flabelliform |
solid shape |
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Strongly compressed, broadest near the apex and attenuate to a narrow base, plaited longitudinally, the alternating folds radiating from the base, the whole basically triangular in broad aspect; like a partially expanded folding fan. |
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lobate |
? cleft, dissected, divided, lobed, parted, partite, segmented |
solid shape |
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Having one or more component sectors or peripheral protrusions that is/are delimited by concavities in the surface or margin and that is/are not proximally distinct from the remainder of the whole. The meanings of this term and its approximate synonyms sometimes have been supposed to differ according to the depth of the delimiting concavities relative to the midline or midpoint of the overall structure, and/or to the shape or proportions of the protusions or sectors; however, there has been little consistency in the applications of the various terms according to such distinctions, which are ones only of degree and are necessarily arbitrary in any case. In general usage, these terms differ only indistinctly and connotatively: cleft, lobed (or lobate), parted (or partite) and segmented tend to connote fewer protrusions or sectors; lobate usually connotes as well a generally rounded shape; dissected tends to connote more numerous sectors that are elongate and angular. See also cut (incised, lacerate, torn), laciniate (slashed). |
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placenta-shaped |
= placentiform |
solid shape |
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Thickly discoid (disciform); like the generalized form of a human placenta. |
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horn-shaped |
= corniform |
solid shape |
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Straight or curved and slenderly conic or conoidal, like an animal horn. |
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lacrimiform |
= teardrop-shaped |
solid shape |
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Transversely round and broadest just below the middle, broadly rounded to the base and acutely attenuate to the apex. |
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segmented |
? cleft, dissected, divided, lobed, lobate, parted, partite |
solid shape |
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Having two or more major component sectors or peripheral protrusions that are delimited by concavities in the surface or margin and that are not proximally distinct from the remainder of the whole. The meanings of this term and its approximate synonyms sometimes have been supposed to differ according to the depth of the delimiting concavities relative to the midline or midpoint of the overall structure, and/or to the shape or proportions of the protusions or sectors; however, there has been little consistency in the applications of the various terms according to such distinctions, which are ones only of degree and are necessarily arbitrary in any case. In general usage, these terms differ only indistinctly and connotatively: cleft, lobed (or lobate), parted (or partite) and segmented tend to connote fewer protrusions or sectors; lobate usually connotes as well a generally rounded shape; dissected tends to connote more numerous sectors that are elongate and angular. See also cut (incised, lacerate, torn), laciniate (slashed). |
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asymmetric(al) 1 |
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solid shape |
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Not divisible into essentially equal halves along any line or plane. |
