muriformadj.1
/ˈmjʊərᵻfɔːm/, /ˈmjɔːrᵻfɔːm/, U.S. /ˈmjʊrəˌfɔrm/ Botany.
1. Composed of cells that are arranged in a regular fashion, like bricks in a wall.
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the world > plants > part of plant > cell or aggregate tissue > [adjective] > of particular shape
muriform1832
isodiametric1884
isodiametrical1886
1832 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. 63 Medullary rays..are composed of a muriform cellular tissue.
1870 A. Henfrey & M. T. Masters Elem. Course Bot. (ed. 2) 500 Muriform parenchyma, where the cells are square or oblong, with the long diameter horizontal, and packed like bricks in a wall.
1922 Bot. Gaz. 74 188 Viewed radially, a ray appears as a muriform structure composed of several rows of tabular cells.
1939 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 26 447/2 Farther out in the secondary wood ray cells are elongated radially and become muriform.
1995 E. Lawrence Henderson's Dict. Biol. Terms (ed. 11) 365/2 Muriform, like a brick wall.
2. Of a spore of a lichen or fungus: having both longitudinal and transverse septa.
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1866 E. Tuckerman Lichens Calif., Oregon & Rocky Mts. 7 The simple spore..tending rather to distension, and to division in one direction, exhibits finally the muriform type.
1871 W. A. Leighton Lichen-flora 346 Spores muriform, fuscous.
1911 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 582/1 The spores are divided by both transverse and longitudinal septa producing the muriform (murali-divided) spore.
1939 E. A. Bessey Text-bk. Mycol. (new ed.) viii. 199 The ascospores..vary from ellipsoidal and 1-celled to 2-celled, phragmosporous and muriform or even thread-like.
1995 Mycol. Res. 99 806 This fungus is characterized by spherical or subspherical conidial aggregates composed of globose or subglobose muriform blastoconidia.
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muriformadj.2
/ˈmjʊərᵻfɔːm/, /ˈmjɔːrᵻfɔːm/, U.S. /ˈmjʊrəˌfɔrm/ Medicine and Biology. rare.
Shaped like a mulberry.
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1890 J. S. Billings National Med. Dict. II. 176/1 Muriform, mulberry-like.
1906 Science 21 Dec. 814/1 When the complex polygerm of Encyrtus has reached a half millimeter in length and has taken the form of a sausage, there are about forty muriform bodies in the interior, all distinct from each other and surrounded by the common granular mass.
1995 E. Lawrence Henderson's Dict. Biol. Terms (ed. 11) 365/2 Muriform, shaped like a morula.
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muriformadj.3
/ˈmjʊərᵻfɔːm/, /ˈmjɔːrᵻfɔːm/, U.S. /ˈmjʊrəˌfɔrm/ Zoology.
Resembling a mouse in form; mouse-like. Cf. myomorph adj.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Myomorpha (mouse, rat, vole, or hamster) > [adjective] > like a mouse
murine1607
mousy1853
murinoid1864
muriform1890
1890 Cent. Dict. Muriform, mouse-like or murine in form; myomorphic.
1934 B. S. Vinogradov in Jrnl. Animal Ecol. (1939) 8 384 (title) Materials for the study of the dynamics of the fauna of muriform rodents in U.S.S.R.
1946 Q. Rev. Biol. 21 154 The idea of a basic 10-year cycle in muriform rodents of Russia has been emphasized by Vinogradov (1934).
1993 Biol. Chem. Hoppe-Seyler 374 641 The data appear incompatible with the assumption that the Caviomorpha..form a common phylogenetic clade with the muriform rodents.
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