a. Anat., Bot., etc. [f. Latin type *cymbiformis, from cymba boat: see -FORM.] Boat-shaped.
[1706. Phillips (ed. Kersey), Naviculare Os (in Anat.), otherwise call’d Cymbiforme.]
1836. Penny Cycl., V. 252/2. (Botanical Terms), Cymbiform, having the form of a boat.
1870. Hooker, Stud. Flora, 387. Tofieldia … seeds many … cymbiform.
1882. Syd. Soc. Lex., Cymbiform bone, the os naviculare, a bone of the tarsus.
