"helioform" meaning in English

See helioform in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Forms: more helioform [comparative], most helioform [superlative]
Etymology: helio- + -form Etymology templates: {{confix|en|helio|form}} helio- + -form Head templates: {{en-adj}} helioform (comparative more helioform, superlative most helioform)
  1. (uncommon) Sun-shaped. Tags: uncommon

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          "ref": "1986, Wyatt MacGaffey, Religion and Society in Central Africa: The BaKongo of Lower Zaire, page 124 (quoted in Grey Gundaker, Signs of Diaspora/Diaspora of Signs: Literacies, Creolization, and Vernacular Practice in African America, Oxford University Press (1998), page 90)",
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          "ref": "2003, Michael Naas, Taking on the Tradition: Jacques Derrida and the Legacies of Deconstruction, Stanford University Press, page 124",
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          "ref": "2009, David Foster Wallace, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men: Stories, Little, Brown and Company",
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