hordeiform
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin hordeum (“barley”) + -iform.
Adjective
[edit]hordeiform (comparative more hordeiform, superlative most hordeiform)
- (rare) Resembling the shape of barley grains.
- 1829 June, The Monthly Journal of Foreign Medicine, volume III, Philadelphia, P.A.: E. Littell & Brother, page 440, column 1:
- These hordeiform appendices are sometimes, it is true, of considerable length; but in what manner are they susceptible of luxation?