a. [f. FISSURE sb. + -(I)FORM.] Resembling a fissure in form.
1861. Hulme, trans. Moquin-Tandon, II. VII. xii. 388. The two lateral pits (the analogues of the sucking discs of the Tænia) are fissuriform; they appear, like the sucking discs on the feet of flies and mites, on leeches, &c.
