hordeiform

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin hordeum (“barley”) + -i- +‎ -form.

Adjective[edit]

hordeiform (comparative more hordeiform, superlative most hordeiform)

  1. (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?
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