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Having the appearance of a torula; in the form of a little chain; as, a torulaform string of micrococci.

To change the form of; to change in shape or appearance; to metamorphose; as, a caterpillar is ultimately transformed into a butterfly. Love may transform me to an oyster. Shak.

Capable of being transformed or changed.

The act of transforming, or the state of being transformed; change of form or condition. Specifically: --(a) (Biol.)

Having power, or a tendency, to transform.

One who, or that which, transforms. Specif. (Elec.), an apparatus for producing from a given electrical current another current of different voltage.

that living beings have originated by the modification of some other previously existing forms of living matter; -- opposed to abiogenesis. Huxley.

Having the form of a trapezium; trapezoid.

Like or pertaining to the genus Trichiurus or family Trichiuridæ, comprising the scabbard fishes and hairtails.

Having a triple form or character. "This triform antagonism." I. Taylor. Goddess Triform, I own thy triple spell. Lowell.

The state of being triform, or of having a threefold shape.

In the form of a tube; tubular; tubiform.

Having the form of a tube; tubeform. "Tubiform cells." Carpenter.

Having the form of a small tube.

A division of singing birds including the thrushes and allied kinds.

Having the form of anything that serves to shade, as a tree top, an umbrella, and the like; specifically (Bot.), having the form of an umbrella; umbrella-shaped.

Having the shape of a hook; being of a curved or hooked from; hooklike. Unciform bone (Anat.), a bone of the carpus at the bases of the fourth and fifth metacarpals; the hamatum.

Unlike. [Obs.] Not unconform to other shining globes. Milton.

The quality or state of being unconformable; unconformableness.

Not conformable; not agreeable; not conforming. Moral evil is an action unconformable to it [the rule of our duty]. I. Watts.