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Definition of Bursiform
1. Adjective. Shaped like a pouch.
Definition of Bursiform
1. a. Shaped like a purse.
Definition of Bursiform
1. Adjective. Shaped like a purse or bag. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bursiform
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bursiform
Literary usage of Bursiform
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. First- Second Annual Report Upon the Natural History and Geology of the by Ezekiel Holmes, Charles Henry Hitchcock (1862)
"The branchiae are bursiform and fixed, receiving the streams of water directly
from the throat or oesophagus, through short tubes communicating with each ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... in the Crinoidea is cup-shaped or bursiform, and its base always in the young
state and usually in the adult is attached by the apical pole either ..."
3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1857)
"The CRINOIDEA have a distinct bursiform body formed of a calyx, composed of a
definite number of plates, provided with five solid rays, ..."
4. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1855)
"... and then expands into a subglobose or bursiform sphere oblate at the pyloric
axis; in the interior it is furnished with muscular raised fillets, ..."
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