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cuniculiform en · ADJ

Etymology

From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting New Latin combining forms: cunicul(us) + -iform.

Meanings

  1. Synonym of rabbitlike.
    • Cuniculiform structures in the Orellan Member of the White River Formation near. Douglas, Wyoming are vertebrate burrows […] 1997, “Abstract of Papers. Fifty-Seventh Annual Meeting, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology.”, in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, vol. 17, no. 3, 1997, pp. A1–93.:
    • […] strongly reduced column foot; cuniculiform spur; basally nearly erect or only slightly arcuate lip, […] 2004, Rutkowski et al., “New taxa and new combinations in Mesoamerican Stenorrhynchidinae (Orchidaceae, Spirantheae)”, in Annales Botanici Fennici, archived from the original on 20 Dec 2023, page 484:
    • I do not perceive there a frightened call to cuniculiform fecundity. 2006, Théophile de Giraud, The Art of Guillotining Procreators: An Anti-Natalist Manifesto:

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Relateds

cuniculus

Synonyms

rabbitlike

wikipedia: international scientific vocabulary · wikipedia: classical compound