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Definition of Calceiform
1. Adjective. Of slipper-shaped blossoms. "The calceiform lip of certain orchids"
Definition of Calceiform
1. a. Shaped like a slipper, as one petal of the lady's-slipper; calceolate.
Definition of Calceiform
1. Adjective. Having the shape of a slipper or shoe ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Calceiform
Literary usage of Calceiform
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"... spotted with crimson-brown; labellum calceiform, dull rose on the front, paler
beneath, finely veined with deeper rose. Autumn. Borneo. BM 5349. ..."
2. A History of the Vegetable Kingdom: Embracing the Physiology of Plants, with by William Rhind (1857)
"Calcareous, chalky, or growing on chalk. calceiform, formed like a little shoe.
Calli, small callosities, or rough protuberances. Callous, hardened. ..."
3. Eucalyptus by Abbot Kinney (1895)
"... or calceiform: slipper-shaped, like one petal of the Lady's Slipper. Callose :
hardened ; or furnished with callosities or thickened spots. ..."
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