"planiform" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From plane + -iform.",
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      "form": "more planiform",
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      "form": "most planiform",
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  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1890, John Marshall, J. S. Cuthbert, Anatomy for Artists, page 240:",
          "text": "The articulations of the second row of the carpus, which constitutes what may be named the pro-carpus, are likewise of the planiform kind, and are completed by palmar, dorsal and interosseous ligaments, that between the os magnum and unciform being very strong.",
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          "ref": "2014, Timothy M. Kusky, Encyclopedia of Earth Science, page 94:",
          "text": "Some computer models allow periods of convection dominated by plumes, and others dominated by overturning planiform cells similar to the present Earth.",
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          "ref": "2022, Sara Castro-Klaren, A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture, page 157:",
          "text": "Towards the end of the seventeenth century, a new style of planiform carving emerged on church exteriors in the Andean altiplano from Arequipa to Lake Titicaca and across the Bolivian highlands.",
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        {
          "text": "a planiform, gliding, or arthrodial articulation"
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        "Having a plane surface."
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  "word": "planiform"
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  "etymology_text": "From plane + -iform.",
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        },
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          "text": "Some computer models allow periods of convection dominated by plumes, and others dominated by overturning planiform cells similar to the present Earth.",
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          "ref": "2022, Sara Castro-Klaren, A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture, page 157:",
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        "Having a plane surface."
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