stylophorus

Translingual

Etymology

From stylo- (“pillar, column”, from Ancient Greek στῦλος (stûlos)) +‎ -phorus (“bearing, carrying”, from Ancient Greek -φόρος (-phóros)). Doublet of Stylophora and Stylophorum. False cognate with Greek στυλοφόρος (stylofóros).

Coined by British botanist Charles Baron Clarke in 1883 with the description of Gentiana stylophora (now Megacodon stylophorus).

Adjective

stylophorus m (feminine stylophora, neuter stylophorum)

  1. Column-bearing; having straight, protruding, cylindrical parts.

Derived terms

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