seminiform, a. Bot. rare.
(sɪˈmɪnɪfɔːm)
[Formed as seminific a.: see -form.]
Having the form of seeds. † a. seminiform attire, a name given by Grew to the stamens. See attire n. 8. Obs.
| 1676 Grew Anat. Pl. i. v. §13 (1682) 37 The Attire, I find to be of two kinds, Seminiforme, and Florid. Ibid. iv. ii. iii. 167 That sort of Attire, which may be called Seminiform, being usually, as it were, a little sheaf of seed-like Particles, standing on so many Pedicills, as the Ear doth upon the End of the Straw. |
b. Bory's epithet for the reproductive bodies of Fungi, Polypi, Confervæ, and other vegetable or animal organisms which have no specialized generative organs.
| 1858 Mayne Expos. Lex. s.v. Seminiformis. |