Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Shaped like a thorn or spine.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Spiny; spinous.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. shaped like a spine or thorn.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. shaped like a spine or thorn
Etymologies
- acanth (“thorn”) + -oid (“resembling”) (Wiktionary)
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-oids
words taking the suffix -oid. because i wanted to use the word zomboid as in "having the likeness of a zombie". and yes, flavenoids is adopted. we'll tell her when she's older...
zomboid, rhomboid, planetoid, factoid, humanoid, asteroid, trapezoid, alkaloid, android, voidoid, woidies, metroid and 22 more...
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logophile
viresce, infinitum, transient, nonpareil, anon, therianthropy, lycomania, halcyon, unblinkered, seraphim, nephilim, moros and 160 more...
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Zoological Terms
Terms used in Zoology
papilionaceous, actinost, gressorial, exuviate, nitid, trochal, demiss, loculus, crebrity, limes, pachytrichous, pachydactyl and 319 more...
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Botanical Terms
Terms used in botany
contabescence, effloresce, foliate, acervate, nuciform, feracious, fructuous, bifarious, serotinous, sative, demiss, tardive and 168 more...
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Miscellany, pt. a
afterdamp, abluent, acanthoid, aquiline, acaulescent, aesthetic evil, armillary, armozeen, astucity, athletary, aberrant, abeyant and 118 more...
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