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Webster 1913 Edition


Napiform

Na′pi-form

,
Adj.
[L.
napus
turnip +
-form
: cf. F.
napiforme
. Cf.
Navew
.]
(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)

  1. (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

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