hypocrateriform, a. Bot.
(ˌhɪpəʊ-, ˌhaɪpəʊkrəˈtɪərɪfɔːm)
[f. Gr. ὑποκρᾱτήρι-ον the stand of a large mixing-bowl (f. ὑπό hypo- 1 + κρᾱτήρ crater n. 1) + -form.]
Having the form of a salver raised on a support: said of a corolla in which the tube is long and cylindrical, with a flat spreading limb at right angles to it, as in the periwinkle and phlox.
| [1753 Chambers Cycl. Supp., Hypocrateriformis,..the name given by Mr. Tournefort to a peculiar sort of flowers.] 1788 J. Lee Introd. Bot. (ed. 4) 7 Hypocrateriform, salver-shaped, that is plain or flat, and standing on a Tube. 1830 Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. 222 Corolla monopetalous,..hypocrateriform, with from 5 to 8 divisions. 1847 W. E. Steele Field Bot. 169 Perianth hypocrateriform..having a cup-shaped crown surrounding the top of the tube. |
So hypocraˈterimorphous a. [Gr. µορϕ-ή shape, form + -ous; cf. F. hypocratérimorphe.]
| 1880 Gray Struct. Bot. vi. §5. 248 Hypocrateriform, or rather (not to mix Latin and Greek) Hypocraterimorphous, in English Salverform. |