Usually means: Shaped like a small dish.
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  1. patelliform: Merriam-Webster
  2. patelliform: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. patelliform: Collins English Dictionary
  4. patelliform: Vocabulary.com
  5. patelliform: Wordnik
  6. patelliform: Wiktionary
  7. patelliform: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. patelliform: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Patelliform, patelliform: Dictionary.com
  10. Patelliform: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. patelliform: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Patelliform: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. patelliform: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. patelliform: FreeDictionary.org
  15. patelliform: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  16. patelliform: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. patelliform: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  3. patelliform: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  2. Patelliform: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (patelliform)

▸ adjective:  Having the shape of a patella.
▸ adjective:  Resembling a limpet of the genus Patella.

Similar:
patellate, patellulate, papiliform, ampulliform, papilliform, pentadactyloid, tibiiform, punctiform, columniform, polypiform, more...

Opposite:
non-patelliform, non-kneecap shaped, atypical

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Similar:
patellate, patellulate, papiliform, ampulliform, papilliform, pentadactyloid, tibiiform, punctiform, columniform, polypiform, more...

Opposite:
non-patelliform, non-kneecap shaped, atypical



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