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dolabriform

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do⋅lab⋅ri⋅form

[doh-lab-ruh-fawrm]
–adjective Botany, Zoology.
shaped like an ax or a cleaver.

Origin:
1745–55; < L dolābr(a) mattock, pickax + -i- + -form
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do·lab·ri·form   (dō-lāb'rə-fôrm')   
adj.   Biology
Having the shape of the head of an ax.

[Latin dolābra, pickax (from dolāre, to hew) + -form.]
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