patelliform
/pəˈtɛlɪfɔːm/adjective
Having the form of a patella; shaped like a shallow dish or a limpet shell.
Origin
Early 19th century; earliest use found in George Samouelle (d. 1846). From patella + -iform, perhaps after scientific Latin patelliformis (Philos. Trans. Royal Soc. 50, caption to plate between pp. 855 and 856; also Linnaeus Fauna Suecica (ed. 2, 1761) 521).
- Berenice
- beret
- berg
- Berg, Alban
- bergamot
- bergamot orange
- bergen
- Bergenfield
- bergenia
- Bergerac
- Berger, Hans
- Berger, Thomas
- bergie
- Bergius, Friedrich Karl Rudolf
- Bergman, Ingmar
- Bergman, Ingrid
- bergschrund
- Bergson, Henri
- Bergsonian
- berg wind
- bergère
- Beria, Lavrenti
- beribboned
- beriberi
- be riding for a fall