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Meaning of "tectiform" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF TECTIFORM

ˈtektɪˌfɔːm


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TECTIFORM

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Tectiform is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES TECTIFORM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of tectiform in the English dictionary

The definition of tectiform in the dictionary is in the form of a roof, roof-shaped.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TECTIFORM

alphabetiform · asbestiform · cactiform · cystiform · dentiform · granitiform · insectiform · lentiform · multiform · natiform · placentiform · restiform · retiform · rotiform · septiform · setiform · stalactitiform · stipitiform · stratiform · zeolitiform

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TECTIFORM

technopolis · technopolitan · technopop · technospeak · technostress · technostructure · techy · teckel · tectal · tectibranch · tectibranchiate · tectonic · tectonically · tectonics · tectonism · tectorial membrane · tectrices · tectricial · tectrix · tectum

WORDS THAT END LIKE TECTIFORM

choreiform · coliform · cribriform · cruciform · cuneiform · dress uniform · epileptiform · filiform · form · fusiform · glandiform · hydatidiform · nonuniform · piriform · plexiform · pyriform · school uniform · Scout uniform · spongiform · uniform · vermiform

Synonyms and antonyms of tectiform in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «tectiform» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TECTIFORM

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The translations of tectiform from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «tectiform» in English.
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Translator English - Chinese

tectiform
1,325 millions of speakers
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tectiforme
570 millions of speakers
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tectiform
510 millions of speakers
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tectiform
380 millions of speakers
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tectiform
280 millions of speakers
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tectiform
278 millions of speakers
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tectiform
270 millions of speakers
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tectiform
260 millions of speakers
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tectiform
220 millions of speakers
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Tektiform
190 millions of speakers
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tectiform
180 millions of speakers
ja

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tectiform
130 millions of speakers
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tectiform
85 millions of speakers
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Tectiform
85 millions of speakers
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tectiform
80 millions of speakers
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tectiform
75 millions of speakers
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क्षोभ
75 millions of speakers
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tectiform
70 millions of speakers
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tectiform
65 millions of speakers
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tectiform
50 millions of speakers
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tectiform
40 millions of speakers
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tectiform
30 millions of speakers
el

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tectiform
15 millions of speakers
af

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tectiform
14 millions of speakers
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tectiform
10 millions of speakers
no

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tectiform
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of tectiform

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TECTIFORM»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about tectiform

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TECTIFORM»

Discover the use of tectiform in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to tectiform and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Prehistory
Tectiform from the cave of Buxu (Asturias, North Spain). 3. Tectiform from the cave of Castillo (Cantabria). 4. Tectiform from the cave of La Pileta (South Spain). It is in the red series. 5. Tectiform from the cave of Castillo. This shield-shaped form ...
M. C. Burkitt, 1988
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Evolution from the Galapagos: Two Centuries after Darwin
Thus, tectiform species are never naked and there is no free-swimming juvenile dispersal stage (Leadbeater 2010). The loricae of nudiform species comprise longitudinal and helical horizontal costae, the latter of which tend to be dense ...
Gabriel Trueba, Carlos Montúfar, 2013
3
Predaceous Diving Beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) of the ...
165); prosternal process various, low and broadly convex to tectiform or carinate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Larger species, length = 6.5 to 8.4 mm; elytron with sculpture very irregular, meshes of varied size and ...
D. J. Larson, Yves Alarie, Robert Edward Roughley, 2000
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The Families of Malesian Moths and Butterflies
92); - Narrower winged groups rest with their wings held over the body in a roof or tent-like manner (tectiform), probably the primitive posture (Tweedie & Emmet, 1991), or rolled round ir (involute). In many instances the angle at which the body  ...
Jeremy Daniel Holloway, Geoffrey Kibby, Djunijanti Peggie, 2001
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From Scratch
His work proclaims: the goal of vision is a recasting of Genesis- end at the beginning A broken totem descends through Excavation: at top center, a bird beak dings (à la Rube Goldberg) the roof of a tectiform whose base is caught like a ...
Clayton Eshleman, 1998
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Dictionary of Civil Engineering: English-French
... hilly break (la cassure montueuse), a type of tectiform break, but with round and irregular summits; noduly break (la cassure noduleuse), which presents grains more or less round, larger than in the granulous break, well-embedded, but with ...
Jean-Paul Kurtz, 2004
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The Aquatic Adephaga (Coleoptera) of the Fennoscandia and ...
Body length 6.5-7.1 mm (ad- pressus-group) 84. adpressus Aube 21. Prosternal process tectiform, triangular in cross-section. Metacoxa small, anterior margin not extending forward to level of hind margin of mesocoxa. Body narrow, TL/MW 1 ...
Anders N. Nilsson, Morgens Holmen, 1995
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the animal kingdom, arranged according to its organization, ...
The antennae, at least in the males, are pectinated or serrated. The wings are horizontal or tectiform, and in several the inferior ones project beyond the others when at rest, and sometimes are also destitute of that bristle or bridle which ...
abron cuvier, 1836
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Singapore Biodiversity: An Encyclopedia of the Natural ...
Mnemosyne efferatus and Norialsus capeneri. Members of the genus Oliarus feed on the roots of GRASSES. Delphacids Family Delphacidae Small plant- hoppers with tectiform (held downward laterally at rest) wings and a distinctive spur on ...
Peter K. L. Ng, Richard Corlett, Hugh T. W. Tan, 2011
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A synopsis of natural history: embracing the natural history ...
Tarsi with three articulations ; antennse of six joints ; head wider than the corselet ; three simple eyes; elytra not crossed, tectiform, transparent and veined ; a musical instrument in the males, composed of two kinds of drums or scales, which, ...
Céran Lemonnier, 1839

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TECTIFORM»

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Children were prehistoric cave artists just like adults
There are also hut-like shapes called tectiforms, markings thought to have a symbolic meaning which are only found in a very specific area of France. When in ... «io9, Oct 11»
2
Prehistoric Children Finger-Painted on Cave Walls
Most are meandering lines, but some depict rudimentary animals, shapes and hut-like figures called tectiforms, which are thought to have held symbolic ... «History, Sep 11»
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Recovering Literature's 'Lost Books'
What do the squiggles and zigzags, the claviforms and tectiforms over the animal images signify? Occasionally, looming out from an inconceivably distant time, ... «NPR, Jun 06»
REFERENCE
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