cuniculiform

English

cuniculiform perfume bottle

Etymology

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

Adjective

cuniculiform (comparative more cuniculiform, superlative most cuniculiform)

1. Synonym of rabbitlike.
   • 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.‎^[1]:

     Cuniculiform structures in the Orellan Member of the White River Formation near. Douglas, Wyoming are vertebrate burrows […]

   • 2004, Rutkowski et al., “New taxa and new combinations in Mesoamerican Stenorrhynchidinae (Orchidaceae, Spirantheae)”, in Annales Botanici Fennici‎^[2], page 484:

     […] strongly reduced column foot; cuniculiform spur; basally nearly erect or only slightly arcuate lip, […]

   • 2006, Théophile de Giraud, The Art of Guillotining Procreators: An Anti-Natalist Manifesto‎^[3]:

     I do not perceive there a frightened call to cuniculiform fecundity.

Related terms

• cuniculus