combining form, on L. models, of L. verrūca VERRUCA, occurring in a few terms in Biol. and Bot., as Verruciferous a., of a zoophyte: bearing verrucæ; Verruciform a., wart-shaped.
Verrucæform adj. (= prec.) occurs in Henslow, Dict. Bot. Terms (1856), s.v.
1833. Hooker, in Smith, Eng. Flora, V. I. 132. Apothecia verruciform.
1846. Dana, Zooph. (1848), 506. Corallum with deep immersed cells, interstices verruciferous, verrucæ convex. Ibid., 525. Summit branchlets verruciform.
