moniliform

American  

[moh-nil-uh-fawrm] / moʊˈnɪl əˌfɔrm /

adjective

1. Botany, Zoology. consisting of or characterized by a series of beadlike swellings alternating with contractions, as certain roots or stems.

2. resembling a string of beads in shape.

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moniliform British  

/ mɒˈnɪlɪˌfɔːm /

adjective

1. biology shaped like a string of beads

   moniliform fungi

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Other Word Forms

• moniliformly adverb

Etymology

Origin of moniliform

1795–1805; < Latin monīli- (stem of monīle necklace) + -form

Example Sentences

They varied in length from a point to one-tenth of an inch; and when highly magnified, were found beautifully moniliform.

From The Ocean and its Wonders by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

Pod elongated, several-seeded, continuous, or constricted between the seeds and moniliform.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

The other name, moniliform, means a bead-like necklace; and this was given it because the threads that make the rosettes look like strings of small pearly-green beads.

From Through a Microscope Something of the Science Together with many Curious Observations Indoor and Out and Directions for a Home-made Microscope. by Sargent, Frederick Leroy

It was white and very short, and apparently consisted entirely of spores arranged in a moniliform manner, like the fertile filaments of a stemless Penicillium.

From Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology by Various

In Cystopus, the spores are sub-globose, or somewhat angular, generated in a moniliform manner, and afterwards separating at the joints.

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)