a. Zool. and Bot. [f. as prec. + -(I)FORM.] (See quot.)
1826. Kirby & Sp., Entomol., IV. 268. Lageniform … bellying out and then ending in a narrow neck, something like a bottle.
1862. M. C. Cooke, Man. Bot. Terms, Lageniform, shaped like a Florence flask.
1868. W. B. Carpenter, Microscope (ed. 4), § 382. 500. The shell of Nodosaria is obviously made up of a succession of Lageniform chambers.
