Meaning of querciform | Babel Free

Definitions

Resembling an oak: in particular, resembling the (lobed) leaf of an oak.

especially, not-comparable, uncommon

Examples

“AGLAOMORPHIA, [...] Sori non-indusiate, rotundate, [...] Fronds coriaceous, dimorphous, the sterile sessile querciform, brown rigid; [...]”

“DYNARIA. A genus of polypodiaceous ferns, generally distinguishable by the productino of two separate kinds of fronds: the one pinnate or pinnatifid in the usual way, [...] the other [...] lobed at the edge so as to resemble the leaf of an oak, whence they are called querciform. [...] its dwarfed querciform sterile fronds. [...] the fronds of this species being sessile and querciform at the base, [...]”

“Dr . M. DEBEY has recently published a fine memoir on some querciform leaves found in the sand rocks of Aix-la-Chapelle, Rhenish Prussia.”

“Querciform leaves deeply dentate, lower surface and stems with scattered large 1 cm. spines.”

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