facies
nounUK /ˈfeɪ.ʃi.iːz/ · US /ˈfeɪ.ʃiˌiz/
Etymology Borrowed from Latin faciēs (“form, configuration, figure; face, visage, countenance”). Doublet of face.
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General appearance.
- The insects of these four islands have also a common facies - facts which seem to indicate that some more extensive land has recently disappeared from the area they now occupy, and has supplied them with a few of its peculiar productions.1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 106:
- The Chilean Amphijubula Schust. (Schuster, 1970a) which has the facies of a small Frullania and agrees with Frullania in leaf insertion and branching, has a nontiered seta with 16 epidermal cell rows surrounding 4 inner rows.1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 6:
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Medicine, Sciences Facial features, like an expression or complexion, typical for patients having certain diseases or conditions.
- costive facies