piriforme

Catalan

Etymology

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Adjective

piriforme m or f (masculine and feminine plural piriformes)

1. (botany) pyriform

Further reading

• “piriforme” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “piriforme” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “piriforme”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024

French

Alternative forms

• periforme (obsolete)
• pyriforme (dated)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pi.ʁi.fɔʁm/

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• Hyphenation: pi‧ri‧forme

Adjective

piriforme (plural piriformes)

1. pyriform

Derived terms

• piriformité

 

Related terms

• obpiriforme

 

Further reading

• “piriforme” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
• Jouy, Alain & De Foucault, Bruno, 2019. Dictionnaire illustré de botanique. Biotope Éditions, Mèze, →ISBN., p. 215.
• “piriforme”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /piɾiˈfoɾme/ [pi.ɾiˈfoɾ.me]
• Rhymes: -oɾme
• Syllabification: pi‧ri‧for‧me

Adjective

piriforme m or f (masculine and feminine plural piriformes)

1. pyriform

Further reading

• “piriforme”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10