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FILIFORM a.
Having the shape of a thread or filament; as, the filiform papillæ of the tongue; a filiform style or peduncle. See Illust. of AntennÆ.
FISTULIFORM a.
Of a fistular form; tubular; pipe-shaped. Stalactite often occurs fistuliform. W. Philips.
FLABELLIFORM a.
Having the form of a fan; fan-shaped; flabellate.
FLAGELLIFORM a.
Shaped like a whiplash; long, slender, round, flexible, and (comming) tapering.
FOLIFEROUS a.
Producing leaves. [Written also foliiferous.]
FOLLIFUL a.
Full of folly. [Obs.]
FOOLIFY v.
To make a fool of; to befool. [R.] Holland.
FORELIFT v.
To lift up in front. [Obs.]
FOSSILIFEROUS a.
Containing or composed of fossils.
FOSSILIFICATION n.
The process of becoming fossil.
FUNGILLIFORM a.
Shaped like a small fungus.
FUNILIFORM a.
Resembling a cord in toughness and flexibility, as the roots of some endogenous trees.
GALLIFORM a.
Like the Gallinae (or Galliformes) in structure.
GANGLIFORM; GANGLIOFORM a.
Having the form of a ganglion.
GEMMULIFEROUS a.
Bearing or producing gemmules or buds.
GLANDULIFEROUS a.
Bearing glandules.
GLIFF n. 2 definitions
A moment: as, for a gliff. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.
GLOBULIFEROUS a.
Bearing globules; in geology, used of rocks, and denoting a variety of concretionary structure, where the concretions are isolated globules and evenly distributed through the texture of the rock.
GLOMULIFEROUS a.
Having small clusters of minutely branched coral-like excrescences. M. C. Cooke.
GRANULIFEROUS a.
Full of granulations.
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