corniform

corniform

(ˈkɔːnɪˌfɔːm)
adj
shaped like a horn
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Therefore Ikey's corniform, be-spectacled nose and narrow, knowledge-bowed figure was well known in the vicinity of the Blue Light, and his advice and notice were much desired.
Terminal segment with 2 corniform papillae each side, ventral anus in cleft (Fig.
from its congeners: male cerci triangular and bilobed with rounded apex; aedeagus large and wide, larval terminal segment with 2 corniform papillae each side (as L davillae Maia) and inducing galls on A.
The new species can be included in the genus Lopesia due to the following features: (1) R5 curved at its juncture with Rs (Gagne and Marohasy, 1993); (2) Rs situated near the midlength of Rt (Gagne and Marohasy, 1993); (3) a short postabdomen in female, and the cercus bearing many short, sensory setae (Gagne and Marohasy, 1993), and (4) larva with short and mostly corniform terminal papillae, each on a terminal projection (Gagne and Marohasy, 1993).
The head of a bison with a corniform motif stands out among other strokes of difficult interpretation.
Full complement of papillae present except only 2 pairs on terminal segment, 1 corniform, the other setiform.
Terminal segment length, 0.3 mm; maximum width 0.5 mm; round; anus opening in ventral region; terminal segment with four pairs of setose papillae not corniform (one setae long, one median and two short) not placed in lobes (Figure 13).
The larva of the new species differs from other neotropical species of Clinodiplosis in the setae of terminal segment, four pairs of setose papillae, not corniform, and not placed in lobes in C.bellum sp.
11) modified posteriorly as a dorsoventrally flattened lamella ending in 2 elongate appendages each subtending a corniform terminal papilla; 2 of remaining terminal papillae without setae, situated dorsally at base of lamella, 2 with moderately long setae situated laterally at midlength, the remaining 2 with short setae, as wide as long, situated ventrally on lamella.