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villiform, a. Zool.|ˈvɪlɪfɔːm|
[ad. mod.L. villiform-is: see villus and -form. So F. villiforme.]
Of the teeth of certain fishes: Having the form of villi; so numerous, slender, and closely set, as to resemble the pile of velvet.
Also Bot., ‘resembling villi’.
1846[see close-set s.v. close C 1 and 2]. 1849–52Owen in Todd's Cycl. Anat. IV. 874/1 The teeth of the Sheat-fish..present all the gradations between the villiform and raduliform types. 1859Murchison Siluria (ed. 3) App. 562 The minute villiform teeth of osseous fishes. 1880Günther Fishes 126 Very fine conical teeth arranged in a band are termed villiform teeth. |