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Yesterday, I spent some time browsing The Phrontistery’s excellent glossary of Forms and Shapes. (Yes, such a thing exists and yes, some of us will read it for fun.)
It turns out almost anything you can name has a specific word to describe its shape—even things one might consider shape*less*.
Also, we are very fond of describing snakes.
boniform: having the form of good
igniform: having the shape or form of fire
luciform: like light (not Satan-related)
omegoid: shaped like a horseshoe or omega (hippocrepian is also horseshoe-shaped)
peltastiform: shield-shaped (also aspidate and scutiform)
tauromorphous: bull-shaped
villiform: of the form or shape of velvet (not Lex Luthor-related)
vitriform: of the form or shape of glass
anguiform, colubriform, ophiomorphic, and viperiform: shaped like a snake (or, in the last example, a viper)
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Date: 27/07/2017 04:28 pm (UTC)