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Muriform vs Moriform - What's the difference?

muriform | moriform |

In botany|lang=en terms the difference between muriform and moriform

is that muriform is (botany) resembling courses of bricks or stones in squareness and regular arrangement while moriform is (botany) mulberry-like.

As adjectives the difference between muriform and moriform

is that muriform is (botany) resembling courses of bricks or stones in squareness and regular arrangement while moriform is (botany) mulberry-like.

muriform

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (botany) Resembling courses of bricks or stones in squareness and regular arrangement.
    • a muriform variety of cellular tissue
    (Webster 1913)

    moriform

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (botany) Mulberry-like.
  • *1985, Rupert C. Barneby, The Genus Mimosa (Mimosaceae) in Bahia, Brazil: New Taxa and Nomenclatural Adjustments'', in ''Brittonia , vol. 37, no. 2
  • *:A moriform'' (blackberry-like) capitulum is one in which the flower-buds are longer than the interfloral bracts prior to anthesis; when the buds are concealed prior to anthesis by imbricated bracts or by interlocking bracteal setae the capitulum is termed ''conelike .