Wiktionary
citation form
n. the basic form of a word used as a dictionary entry.
WordNet
citation form
n. the form of a word that heads a lexical entry and is alphabetized in a dictionary [syn: main entry word, entry word]
Usage examples of "citation form".
He took his clipboard from the magnetized strip which held it to the center of the dash just above the driveshaft hump, flipped past the blank citation form all cops kept as a shield over the hot-sheet (no need for the general public to be gawking at the license plate numbers the cops were particularly interested in while the cop to whom the sheet belonged was grabbing a hamburger or taking an express dump at a handy filling station), and ran his thumbnail down the fist.