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Definition: CENTRISCOID

Part of Speech Definition
Adjective 1. Allied to, or resembling, the genus Centriscus, of which the bellows fish is an example.[Websters]
2. Virtually never used base adjective of the rarely used adverb centriscoidly.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Adverb Form
(centriscoidly)
1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the rarely used adjective centriscoid.[Eve - graph theoretic]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license.

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Date "Centriscoid" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references)

Etymology:Centriscoid \Cen*tris"coid\, adjective. [New Latin expression. Centriscus (r. Greek kind of fish) -oid.]. (references)

Definition: CENTRISCOID

Part of SpeechDefinition
Adjective1. Allied to, or resembling, the genus Centriscus, of which the bellows fish is an example.[Websters]
2. Virtually never used base adjective of the rarely used adverb centriscoidly.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Adverb Form
(centriscoidly)
1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the rarely used adjective centriscoid.[Eve - graph theoretic]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license.

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Date "CENTRISCOID" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references)

Etymology:Centriscoid \Cen*tris"coid\, adjective. [New Latin expression. Centriscus (r. Greek kind of fish) -oid.]. (references)