Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Resembling a string of beads, as the roots of certain plants or the antennae of certain insects.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Resembling a string of beads: applied in zoölogy and botany to organs, vessels, stems, roots, pods, etc., which have a series of beady swellings alternating with constrictions. Also
monilioid .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Biol.) Joined or constricted, at regular intervals, so as to resemble a string of beads. See
Illust . ofantenna .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having a form resembling a string of beads, where the component parts or segments are more or less uniform in size and are
spherical or rounded in shape.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The very common bushy plant with thorns and ligulate leaves which commences to appear about Hazaribagh and continues in abundance throughout the sandy north-west, is, judging from its fruit, which is a moniliform legume -- a Papilionacea; the fruit are borne by the short spine-terminated branches: the stalk of the pod is surrounded for the most part by a cupuliform membranous calyx.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
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It was white and very short, and apparently consisted entirely of spores arranged in a moniliform manner, like the fertile filaments of a stemless _Penicillium_.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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The nucleus is moniliform and extends the full length of the left side; a number of micronuclei are distributed along its course (Maupas).
Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901
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They varied in length from a point to one-tenth of an inch; and when highly magnified, were found beautifully moniliform.
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-- N.S. -- (Fig. 125.) Shell small, thick and robust, rugose; whirls about six, and ornamented with moniliform ribs.
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-- (Fig. 159.) Shell subulate, sinistral, thick, costate, sutures small; whirls, ten, flat; ribs three, moniliform; columella smooth; canal short and deep.
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Antennae can be clavate, moniliform, filiform, pectinate, geniculate, or serrate. legs that end in two to five small segments which are called tarsi, and are somehwhat like feet.
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Oogonia in moniliform series, early falling apart, not all pitted 8. monUifera.
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Its oogonia are foimed in somewhat more definite moniliform chains, all of whose members appear to have the same fate.
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Body black, punctured; antennae piceous; first joint obconic, not longer than the second and third together, which are equal; 4-10 joints moniliform; last joint ovate acute; palpi pale piceous; terminal joint minute, that of the labial longer; thorax oblong-quadrate; angles rounded; glabrous line none; elytra black piceous, punctures not Vol.IV. — 5 454
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