moˈdioliform, a. Bot. rare—0.
[ad. mod.L. modioliform-is, f. L. modiol-us: see modiolus and -form.]
(See quot. 1866.)
| [1839 Lindley Introd. Bot. iii. i. (ed. 3) 454 Nave-shaped (modioliformis).] 1856 in Mayne Expos. Lex. 1866 Treas. Bot., Modioliform, shaped like the nave of a wheel, round, depressed, with a very narrow orifice; as the ripe fruit of Gaultheria, or the carpels in Modiola. |