napiform

From Latin nāpus (“turnip”) +‎ -form.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈneɪp.ɪ.fɔːm/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈneɪ.pɪ.fɔɹm/

napiform (comparative more napiform, superlative most napiform)

1. (botany) Shaped like a turnip; spherical at the top, but with a tapering bottom.
   • 2007, K. Kubitzki, editor, The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, volume IX, page 265:

     The primary root is transformed into an^[sic] perennating storage root, which is tuberous or napiform and then often branched, […]