seminiformadj.
/sɪˈmɪnɪfɔːm/ Botany. rare.
Having the form of seeds.† a. seminiform attire n. a name given by Grew to the stamens. See attire n. 8. Obsolete.
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1682 N. Grew Anat. Plants i. v. 37 The Attire, I find to be of two kinds, Seminiforme [1672 Seminie], and Florid.
1682 N. Grew Anat. Plants iv. ii. iii. 167 That Sort of Attire, which may be called Seminiform; being usually, as it were, a little Sheaf of Seed-like Particles, standing on so many Pedicills, as the Ear doth upon the End of the Straw.
b. Bory's epithet for the reproductive bodies of Fungi, Polypi, Confervæ, and other vegetable or animal organisms which have no specialized generative organs.
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seminy1672
seminiform1858
1858 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) at Seminiformis
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