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Botuliform refers to a sausage-shaped object that is approximately cylindrical, with rounded ends, a prolate spheroid.

Botuliform refers to a sausage-shaped object that is approximately cylindrical, with rounded ends, a prolate spheroid.

narrow oblong cylinder, hemispherical terminus

Having the shape of a sausage. --Henslow. 1913 Webster

The word is derived from the Latin botuli-; the same prefix is used in the word botulism, which literally translates as "sausage poisoning".[1][2]

The suffix -form refers to something that resembles the item in form, shape, likeness or characteristics, and is derived from the the old French verb formeur, from the Latin formare meaning "form".[3][4]

It is used in the field of botany, for example to describe the herb Rumex ochotskius, which has "botuliform tubercles with obtuse apices".[5]

In mammals, the Short-tailed Gymnure mouse (Hylomys suillus) has botuliform secretion cavities for their apocrine glands, in the skin of their withers.[6]

In the context of fungi, it is close in meaning to the word allantoid,[2] and used to describe certain vegetative yeast cells, the shape of which can be used to identify specific species, and can determine their method of reproduction,[7] or to describe ascomata, the fruiting body of fungi such as Coryneliales,[8] which form sausage-shaped under ground, but open into funnel-shaped ostioles.[9]

The term has been used to describe vegetables.[10], the shape of a person,[11], and as a nickname for the human penis.[12]

The cellular structure of bacilli in fossil records.[13]

Taxonoic usage

  • Aegyptianella botuliformis bact. order Rickettsiales
  • Xylaria botuliformis fungi genus Xylaria
  • Eunotia botuliformis algae class Bacillariophyceae
  • Freycinetia botuliformis plant, genus Freycinetia
  • Erica botuliformis plant (heather), genus Erica
  • Cyatheacidites botuliformis ? fern, 'thought to be' genus Lophosoria
  • Dentalina botuliformis genus Foraminifera prehistoric prob. protozoa
  • Septoria botuliformis fungi genus Septoria

References

  1. ^ Eric Partridge (1977), Origins: an Etymological Dictionary of Modern English (4 ed.), Routledge, p. 3985, ISBN 9780203421147, retrieved 2010-07-07
  2. ^ a b Ainsworth & Bisby's dictionary of the fungi (10 ed.), CABI, 2008, pp. 20, 101, ISBN 9780851998268, retrieved 2010-07-07 {{citation}}: Unknown parameter |authors= ignored (help)
  3. ^ Chris Aldrich (2002). "The Aldrich Dictionary of Phobias and Other Word Families". Trafford Publishing. p. 42. ISBN 9781553698869. Retrieved 2010-07-07.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: periodical has ISBN (link)
  4. ^ "An English grammar: comprehending the principles and rules of the language, illustrated by appropriate exercises: on the basis of Murray". Harvard reading textbooks preservation microfilm project. Claremont Manufacturing Co. 1844. Retrieved 2010-07-07. {{cite web}}: Text "pages 187,188" ignored (help)
  5. ^ Flora of North America Editorial Committee (2005), Flora of North America: north of Mexico, vol. 5, Oxford University Press US, p. 531, ISBN 9780195222111
  6. ^ Vladimir Evgenʹevich Sokolov (1982), Mammal skin, University of California Press, p. 62, ISBN 9780520031982, retrieved 2010-07-07 {{citation}}: Unknown parameter |agency= ignored (help)
  7. ^ The yeasts, a taxonomic study (4 ed.), Elsevier, 1998, p. 81, ISBN 9780444813121, retrieved 2010-07-07 {{citation}}: Unknown parameter |authors= ignored (help)
  8. ^ Ian M. Smith (1988), European handbook of plant diseases, BS - Plant Pathology Publications, vol. 1, Wiley-Blackwell, p. 307, ISBN 9780632012220, retrieved 2010-07-07 {{citation}}: Unknown parameter |agency= ignored (help)
  9. ^ R. S. Mehrotra, K. R. Aneja, An Introduction to Mycology, New Age International, 1990, p. 363, ISBN 9788122400892, retrieved 2010-07-07
  10. ^ John Lindley (1866), Thomas Moore (ed.), The treasury of botany: a popular dictionary of the vegetable kingdom; with which is incorporated a glossary of botanical terms, vol. 1, Longmans, Green and Co., retrieved 2010-07-07
  11. ^ Ernest Ayscoghe Floyer (1977), Unexplored Balūchistan: a survey, with observations astronomical, geographical, botanical, etc., of a route through Mekran, Bashkurd, Persia, Kurdistan, and Turkey, Adegi Graphics LLC, p. 149, ISBN 9781402189968, retrieved 2010-07-07 {{citation}}: Unknown parameter |agency= ignored (help)
  12. ^ Mark Steven Morton (2003), The Lover's Tongue: A Merry Romp Through the Language of Love and Sex, Insomniac Press, ISBN 9781894663519, retrieved 2010-07-07
  13. ^ Neogene to modern phosphorites, Phosphate deposits of the world, vol. 3, Cambridge University Press, 1990, p. 109, ISBN 9780521333702, retrieved 2010-07-07 {{citation}}: Unknown parameter |authors= ignored (help)

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