linguliform

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English

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Etymology

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lingula +‎ -iform

Adjective

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linguliform (not comparable)

  1. (biology) resembling a lingula
    This study concerns all infaunal brachiopods that possess an inarticulate, organo-phosphatic, linguliform shell.

Noun

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linguliform (plural linguliforms)

  1. Any brachiopod of the subphylum Linguliformea