This is a series of posts on interesting and unusual words and phrases.

The first set of words are adjectives that describe a shape and are often used in botany, mineralogy, and describing artistic forms.

The word for today is cochleate: shaped like a snail shell, spiral, from the Latin cochleatus.

This is a series of posts on interesting and unusual words and phrases.

The first set of words are adjectives that describe a shape and are often used in botany, mineralogy, and describing artistic forms.

The word for today is cochleariform: spoon-shaped, from the Latin cochlearis.

This is a series of posts on interesting and unusual words and phrases.

The first set of words are adjectives that describe a shape and are often used in botany, mineralogy, and describing artistic forms.

The word for today is clypeate or clypeiform: shield or buckler-shape, from the Latin clypeus.

Clipeus:

Pliny the Elder also describes the custom of having a bust-portrait of an ancestor painted on a clipeus, and having it hung in a temple or other public place. From this round bas-reliefs in a medallion on sarcophagi and in other forms are known as imago clipeata or “clipeus portraits”,^[2] a term usually restricted to Roman art.

Clipeus of Iupiter-Ammon, conserved at the Museu Nacional Arqueològic de Tarragona

This is a series of posts on interesting and unusual words and phrases.

The first set of words are adjectives that describe a shape and are often used in botany, mineralogy, and describing artistic forms.

The word for today is cassideous: helmet-shaped, from the Latin cassis.

This is a series of posts on interesting and unusual words and phrases.

The first set of words are adjectives that describe a shape and are often used in botany, mineralogy, and describing artistic forms.

The word for today is acetabuliform: saucer-shaped, from the Latin acetabulum.

Acetabulum:

https://orthoinfo.aaos.org/en/diseases–conditions/acetabular-fractures/

This is a series of posts on interesting and unusual words and phrases.

The first set of words are adjectives that describe a shape and are often used in botany, mineralogy, and describing artistic forms.

The word for today is cepaceous: having the character of an onion, in shape or smell, from the Latin caepa.

This is a series of posts on interesting and unusual words and phrases.

The first set of words are adjectives that describe a shape and are often used in botany, mineralogy, and describing artistic forms.

The word for today is capillaceous: hair-like in shape, from the Latin capillaceus, “hairy”, from capillus, hair

A term often applied to aquatic plants such as the Blunt-fruited Water-starwort (Callitriche obtusangula)

https://www.natureplprints.com/2020vision/2/aquatic-plants-river-itchen-blunt-fruited-15363699.html

This is a series of posts on interesting and unusual words and phrases.

The first set of words are adjectives that describe a shape and are often used in botany, mineralogy, and describing artistic forms.

The word for today is calyptriform : of the shape of a calyptra or candle-extinguisher, from the Greek, kalúptra, “covering or veiling”.

Porpolomopsis calyptriformis (Berk.) Bresinsky – Pink Waxcap

https://wordpress.com/post/stewardarchives.com/1768

This is a series of posts on interesting and unusual words and phrases.

The first set of words are adjectives that describe a shape and are often used in botany, mineralogy, and describing artistic forms.

The word for today is calceolate or calceiform : of the shape of a slipper or small shoe, from the Latin, calceolus.

Orchid:

https://www.orchidsnewguinea.com/orchid-glossary/define-term/Calceolate/