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vergiform

vergiform adjective: of the feet of certain crustaceans: resembling a rod; rod-like.

Adjective

vergiform (comparative more vergiform, superlative most vergiform)

  1. Of the feet of certain crustaceans: resembling a rod; rod-like.
    • Dana's statements that the feet are all vergiform and that the first and second peraeopods, though a little stouter than the gnathopods, are still slender, are irreconcilable with the undoubtedly subchelate character of those peraeopods in Haswell's I. punctatus.1909, Scientific Results of the Trawling Expedition of H.M.C.S. "Thetis" Off the Coast of New South Wales, in February and March, 1898, Sydney, NSW: Australian Museum, page 626

Forms of vergiform

comparativemore vergiform
superlativemost vergiform

Origin of vergiform

From verge (“a rod or staff”) + -iform.

Questions about vergiform

What does vergiform mean?
Vergiform means of the feet of certain crustaceans: resembling a rod; rod-like.
What part of speech is vergiform?
Vergiform is an adjective.

Words near vergiform in the dictionary

  1. vergescu
  2. Vergeses
  3. vergeth
  4. vergette
  5. vergettes
  6. vergiform
  7. Vergil
  8. Vergilian
  9. Vergilianism
  10. Vergina
  11. Vergina star

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