napiform
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of napiform
Example Sentences
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Turnips bulge out in the middle, and are napiform.
From Harper's Round Table, August 20, 1895 by Various
The radish is spindle-shaped, tapering at top and bottom, the carrot is conical, the turnip is called napiform; some radishes are shaped like the turnip.
From Outlines of Lessons in Botany, Part I; from Seed to Leaf by Newell, Jane H.
Simple or unbranched roots are named according to their shapes— conical, when like the carrot; napiform, when like the turnip; fusiform, when like the long radish.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth
P. 3-7 cm. exp. olive then dingy tan, flesh violet then whitish; g. violet-umber then sooty-olive; s. 5-7 cm. fibrillose, pallid, bulb napiform, marginate; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George
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