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myriapodlike

myriapodlike adjective: resembling or characteristic of myriapods.

Adjective

myriapodlike (comparative more myriapodlike, superlative most myriapodlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of myriapods.
    • Brauer (1868) suggests the origin of insects from a myriapodlike ancestor.1959 [1942], S. W. Frost, Insect Life and Insect Natural History (Formerly Entitled: General Entomology), second revised edition, New York, NY: Dover Publications, Inc., page 11
    • […]; styli interpreted as vestiges of locomotor appendages inherited from myriapodlike ancestors; […]1973, William S. Romoser, The Science of Entomology, New York, NY: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., →ISBN, page 318

Forms of myriapodlike

comparativemore myriapodlike
superlativemost myriapodlike

Origin of myriapodlike

From myriapod + -like.

Questions about myriapodlike

What does myriapodlike mean?
Myriapodlike means resembling or characteristic of myriapods.
What part of speech is myriapodlike?
Myriapodlike is an adjective.

Words near myriapodlike in the dictionary

  1. myriametres
  2. myriametric
  3. myriangiaceous
  4. myriapod
  5. myriapodan
  6. myriapodlike
  7. myriapodological
  8. myriapodologist
  9. myriapodologists
  10. myriapodology
  11. myriapods

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