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Having the shape of a scithe or sickle; resembling a reaping hook; as, the falciform ligatment of the liver.

Having the form of a fiber or fibers; resembling a fiber.

Shaped like a fern or like the parts of a fern leaf. Smart.

Having the shape of a thread or filament; as, the filiform papillæ of the tongue; a filiform style or peduncle. See Illust. of AntennÆ.

Of a fistular form; tubular; pipe-shaped. Stalactite often occurs fistuliform. W. Philips.

Having the form of a fan; fan-shaped; flabellate.

Shaped like a whiplash; long, slender, round, flexible, and (comming) tapering.

Having the form of a flower; flower-shaped.

Full in form or shape; rounded out with flesh. The full-formed maids of Afric. Thomson.

Shaped like a fungus or mushroom. Fungiform papillæ (Anat.), numerous small, rounded eminences on the upper surface of the tongue.

Shaped like a small fungus.

Resembling a cord in toughness and flexibility, as the roots of some endogenous trees.

Having the form of a funnel, or tunnel; that is, expanding gradually from the bottom upward, as the corolla of some flowers; infundibuliform.

Shaped like a spindle; tapering at each end; as, a fusiform root; a fusiform cell.

Like the Gallinae (or Galliformes) in structure.

Having the form of a ganglion.

Having a form of gas; gaseous.

Having the form of gelatin.

Ginglymoid.

Having the form of a gland or nut; resembling a gland.