different between reniform vs bukovskyite

English

Etymology

From Latin r?n (“kidney”) + -form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??i?n?f??(?)m/

Adjective

reniform (not comparable)

1. Shaped like a kidney; having a circular or roughly circular shape with a notch.
   1. (medicine) That has the shape or profile of a kidney.

   2. (botany, of various anatomical structures) Shaped like a kidney: in leaves, having the petiole attached at the notch; in seeds or spores, shaped generally like a kidney bean.
   3. (zoology, of various anatomical structures) Shaped more or less like a human kidney in any of various ways, such as outline or contour, for example in the pupils of some species' eyes, the compound eyes of some insects, or the shapes of some bones or nodules.

Synonyms

• kidney-shaped

Derived terms

• obreniform

Related terms

• renal

Translations

References

Anagrams

• informer, reinform

Romanian

Etymology

From French réniforme

Adjective

reniform m or n (feminine singular reniform?, masculine plural reniformi, feminine and neuter plural reniforme)

1. reniform

Declension

English

Alternative forms

• bukovskýite

Etymology

Named after Czech chemist Antonín Bukovský (1865–1950), who studied minerals of old pit heaps and in 1901 proved it was an arsenate.

Noun

bukovskyite (plural bukovskyites)

1. (mineralogy) An iron arsenate sulfate mineral that forms nodules with a reniform surface.

References

• David Barthelmy (1997–2021) , “Bukovskyite”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database

Further reading

• Bukovskyite on Wikipedia.Wikipedia