Definitions for moniliform

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moniliform mo·nil·i·form

Spelling: [moh-nil-uh-fawrm]

IPA: /moʊˈnɪl əˌfɔrm/

Moniliform is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 203 anagrams from letters in moniliform (fiilmmnoor).

Definitions for moniliform

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.

Origin of moniliform

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

Examples for moniliform

In the order Antennariei, the threads are black and moniliform, more or less felted, bearing irregular sporangia.

The cells composing the whorled filaments are beaded or moniliform, and are prolonged into colourless hair-like points.

He has never seen them adhere in moniliform chains nor massed as zoogla.

Tortulose-us: hump-backed; a surface with a few large elevations: beaded; moniliform.

moniliform, necklace-shaped; a cylindrical body contracted at intervals.

That of Sphinx Iatroph L. appears to be jointed, at least it is moniliform.