musciform
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having the appearance or form of a moss.
Example Sentences
- "The surface had an irregular, musciform quality, interrupted by various ridges and valleys."
- "8. Native Gold, of a bright gold-yellow colour, in musciform leaves, upon saxum metalliferum; from the same place (very rich.)"
- "...they connect with the theciferous, partly "peristomiate," and radiately divided (hence musciform) group of fungi..."
- "Kelleria and Drapetes are humble subshrubby and caespitose, musciform plants, with sessile and imbricate leaves."
- "The insect had a distinctly musciform appearance, although its shiny, golden colouration was altogether more agreeable."
- "Larva.—Length, 7–9 mm. White, head black. General shape musciform, tapered anteriorly, blunt posteriorly."
Etymology
From Latin mūscus (“moss”) + -iform.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more musciform (comparative)
most musciform (superlative)