reniform
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin rēnis (the genitive singular of rēn (“kidney”); see further at that entry) + English -form (suffix meaning ‘having the form or shape of’), modelled after New Latin rēnifōrmis (“of seeds: kidney-shaped”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɹɛnɪfɔːm/, /ˈɹiː-/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɹɛnəˌfɔɹm/, /ˈɹiː-/, /-nɪ-/
- Hyphenation: ren‧i‧form
Adjective
[edit]reniform (not comparable)
- (chiefly biology, mineralogy) Synonym of kidney-shaped (“having an approximately circular or elongated ovoid shape with an inward curve or indentation on one side”)
- intussusception with a reniform appearance
- multiple reniform circumscribed fat-containing masses
- [1745, James Parsons, “Tab. V. Fig. 12. a. Cow-itch, Coughage, or Stinging-Beans.”, in The Microscopical Theatre of Seeds: […], volume I, London: […] F. Needham, […]; and sold by M. Cooper, […], →OCLC, page 201:
- The Bean […] is oval, and not at all reniform'd like the Kidney-Beans.]
- 1751, John Hill, “Class the Sixth. Order the First. Division the First. Hexandria Monogynia, Having Corollæ Divided into Three Segments, and Cups to Them. [TRADESCANTIA.]”, in A General Natural History: Or, New and Accurate Descriptions of the Animals, Vegetables, and Minerals of the Different Parts of the World; […], volume II (A History of Plants), London: […] Thomas Osborne, […], →OCLC, part III (Plants Called the More Perfect Ones), page 364:
- [T]he antheræ are reniform: the germen is oval, and obtuſely trigonal; […]
- 1756, Albert Haller [i.e., Albrecht von Haller], “Observation LIX. A Coalition of the Kidnies.”, in Pathological Observations, Chiefly from Dissections of Morbid Bodies, London: […] D. Wilson and T. Durnam, […], →OCLC, page 178:
- In one of the ſegments of the lovver portion of the kidney, there vvas a large reniform Papillæ, in the outer circumference of vvhich a ſmall part of the papillary fleſh vvas vvanting. […] In the oppoſite ſegment, there vvas a fourth reniform Papilla, reſembling the firſt; […]
- 1799, William Babington, “[Class III. Metals. Order II. Fragile. Genus IV. Cobalt.] Species II. Native Oxyde of Cobalt.”, in A New System of Mineralogy, in the Form of a Catalogue, after the Manner of Baron Born’s Systematic Catalogue of the Collection of Fossils of Mlle. Élénore de Raab, London: […] T[homas] Bensley, […]; and sold by W. Phillips, […]; G. G. and J. Robinsons, […]; and T[homas] Cox, […], →OCLC, page 232:
- The oxyde of cobalt, […] is found either ſuperficial, interſperſed, or in lumps; ſometimes botryoidal or reniform or bearing particular impreſſions.
- 1861, Richard F[rancis] Burton, “To Ruby Valley”, in The City of the Saints and across the Rocky Mountains to California, London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, →OCLC, page 570:
- Nothing could be more simple than the furniture. The chairs were either posts mounted on four legs spread out for a base, or three-legged stools with reniform seats.
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]synonym of kidney-shaped — see also kidney-shaped
of a leaf: kidney-shaped, with the petiole attached at the notch
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References
[edit]- ^ “reniform, adj.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2022; “reniform, adj.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Further reading
[edit]- reniform (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “reniform”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
- “reniform, adj.”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present, reproduced from Stuart Berg Flexner, editor in chief, Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Random House, 1993, →ISBN.
Anagrams
[edit]Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French réniforme.
Adjective
[edit]reniform m or n (feminine singular reniformă, masculine plural reniformi, feminine and neuter plural reniforme)
Declension
[edit]Declension of reniform
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | reniform | reniformă | reniformi | reniforme | ||
definite | reniformul | reniforma | reniformii | reniformele | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | reniform | reniforme | reniformi | reniforme | ||
definite | reniformului | reniformei | reniformilor | reniformelor |
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