libriform

English

Etymology

From the stem of Latin liber +‎ -iform.[1]

Adjective

libriform (comparative more libriform, superlative most libriform)

  1. (botany) Resembling or having the form of liber, or bast.
    • 1885, George Lincoln Goodale, Physiological Botany:
      The unseptate fibres, the true libriform cells, are only sparingly pitted, except in a few species like Oleander, where they are pitted on both the radial and tangential walls

Translations

Translations

Noun

libriform (uncountable)

  1. (botany) Tissue composed of cells of this kind.

References

  1. ^ “libriform, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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