muscariform

English

Etymology

From Latin muscarium (“fly brush”) +‎ -form.

Adjective

muscariform (comparative more muscariform, superlative most muscariform)

1. Having the form of a brush.
   • 1847, Lorenz Oken, Elements of Physiophilosophy, page 301:

     The Palmaceæ have a woody, very hollow stem, with many-ribbed, divided, and often pinnate leaves; a muscariform inflorescence lodged in spathes, sexanary corollæ with nuts, berries, or drupes.

   • 2015, RJ Bayer, PJ Figura, “Antennaria sawyeri (Asteraceae: Gnaphalieae), a new serpentine endemic species from the Klamath mountains of Northern California”, in Systematic Botany:

     […] staminate pappus capillary-barbellate with very narrowly clavate or muscariform tips, 3.5–4.5(–5.5) mm long (Fig. 1E); mature achenes 1.5–2.5 mm long (Fig. 1G), sparingly […]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “muscariform”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)