Definition of "crateriform" [cra•ter•i•form]

• Having the form of a shallow bowl. (adjective)

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• "Both above and below, this river passes through a majestic canon, and its neighbourhood abounds in small cones, some with crateriform cavities at the top, some broken down, and others, apparently of great age, wooded to their summits."
• "An hour of very severe work, and energetic use of the knife on the part of the Aino, took me to the top of one of these through a mass of entangled and gigantic vegetation, and I was amply repaid by finding a deep, well-defined crateriform cavity of great depth, with its sides richly clothed with vegetation, closely resembling some of the old cones in the island of Kauai."
• "Mauritius, beautiful appearance of — Great crateriform ring of mountains — Hindoos — St. Helena —"