a. Bot. [f. as prec. + -FORM.] Calyptra-shaped.
1830. Lindley, Nat. Syst. Bot., 46. The corolla is calyptriform in Antholoma.
1880. Gray, Bot. Text-bk., 400. Calyptriform. Calyptra-shaped; as the calyx of Eschscholtzia.
So Calyptrimorphous a. [Gr. μορφή form.] ‘Applied in Botany to ascidia which have a distinct lid.’ Syd. Soc. Lex., 1881.
