The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crateriform \Cra*ter"i*form\ (kr?-t?r"?-f?rm), a. [L. cratera + -form.] (Bot.) Having the form of a shallow bowl; -- said of a corolla.
Wiktionary
a. (context botany English) Having the form of a shallow bowl.
Usage examples of "crateriform".
Right down through the center, from pole to pole, runs a wonderful line of craters and crateriform valleys of a magnitude stupendous even for the moon.
The vast crateriform depression above the center of the picture is Clavius, an unrivaled wonder of lunar scenery, a hundred and forty-two miles in its greatest length, while its whole immense floor has sunk two miles below the general surface of the moon outside the ring.
There appears to me to be insuperable objections to this view: on the other hand, I can hardly believe, in this and in some other cases, that these marginal crateriform mountains are merely the basal remnants of immense volcanos, of which the summits either have been blown off, or swallowed up in subterranean abysses.