planiform

Adjective

1. Having a plane surface.
   • 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...
   • Some computer models allow periods of convection dominated by plumes, and others dominated by overturning planiform cells similar to the present Earth. - 2014, Timothy M. Kusky, Encyclopedia of Earth Science, page 94:
   • 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. - 2022, Sara...