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Patelliform

adjective
1.
Shaped like a dish or pan.  Synonyms: dish-shaped, dished.






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"Patelliform" Quotes from Famous Books



... leaves, excepting those that float on the surface, are so thickly incrusted with corallines as to be of a white colour. We find exquisitely delicate structures, some inhabited by simple hydra-like polypi, others by more organized kinds, and beautiful compound Ascidiae. On the leaves, also, various patelliform shells, Trochi, uncovered molluscs, and some bivalves are attached. Innumerable crustacea frequent every part of the plant. On shaking the great entangled roots, a pile of small fish, shells, cuttle-fish, crabs of all orders, sea-eggs, star-fish, beautiful ...
— The Voyage of the Beagle • Charles Darwin



Words linked to "Patelliform" :   concave, dished



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