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nasutiform

nasutiform adjective: having a nasus.

Adjective

nasutiform (not comparable)

  1. Having a nasus.
    • The large subfamily Nasutitermitinae includes many species which have soldiers with a pear-shaped, nasutiform head and several species build nests of carton.1970, Kumar Krishna, Frances M. Weesner, editors, Biology of Termites, volume II, New York, N.Y.; London: Academic Press, page 374

Origin of nasutiform

From nasute (“a kind of termite with a nasus”) + -iform.

Questions about nasutiform

What does nasutiform mean?
Nasutiform means having a nasus.
What part of speech is nasutiform?
Nasutiform is an adjective.

Words near nasutiform in the dictionary

  1. nasus
  2. nasus externus
  3. nasute
  4. nasuteness
  5. nasutes
  6. nasutiform
  7. NASUWT
  8. NASW
  9. naswar
  10. Nasworthy
  11. Nasworthys

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