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nematodelike

nematodelike adjective: resembling or characteristic of nematodes.

Adjective

nematodelike (comparative more nematodelike, superlative most nematodelike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of nematodes.
    • Body of typical nematodelike appearance in free-living forms, swollen in the females of some plant-parasitic species, but without large swollen cells inside.1935, Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian miscellaneous collections, volume 89, page 33
    • An aberrant feature of the genus is the nematodelike embryo, a tightly coiled and wormlike form within a separate and loose sac[…]1975, Robert A. Wardle, James A. MacLeod, Sydney Radinovsky, Advances in the Zoology of Tapeworms: 1950-1970, page 202

Forms of nematodelike

comparativemore nematodelike
superlativemost nematodelike

Origin of nematodelike

From nematode + -like.

Questions about nematodelike

What does nematodelike mean?
Nematodelike means resembling or characteristic of nematodes.
What part of speech is nematodelike?
Nematodelike is an adjective.

Words near nematodelike in the dictionary

  1. nematocysts
  2. nematocyte
  3. nematocytes
  4. nematodal
  5. nematode
  6. nematodelike
  7. nematodes
  8. nematodesmata
  9. nematodiasis
  10. nematodicidal
  11. nematodontous

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