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-form

-form

a combining form meaning “having the form of”: cruciform.

Origin:
< Latin -fōrmis
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-form is always a great word to know.
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a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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-form
 
adj combining form
having the shape or form of or resembling: cruciform; vermiform
 
[from New Latin -formis, from Latin, from fōrmaform]

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-form suff.
Having the form of: plexiform.

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