Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- adj. Of, relating to, or resembling a scorpion.
- adj. Botany Like the tail of a scorpion; circinate: a scorpioid cyme.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- adj. Of, pertaining to, or appearing like a scorpion.
- adj. Resembling a scorpion's tail, as in a scorpioid cyme; circinate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Having the inflorescence curved or circinate at the end, like a scorpion's tail.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In zoology:
- Resembling or related to a scorpion; belonging to the Scorpionida.
- Rolled over or curled like the tail of a scorpion; cincinnal; coiled in a flat spiral.
- In botany, curved or circinate at the end, like the tail of a scorpion; rolled up toward one side in the manner of a crozier, unrolling as the flowers expand, as in some of the Boraginaceæ. See cut in next column.
Etymologies
Greek skorpioeidēs, scorpionlike : skorpios, scorpion + -oeidēs, -oid.
(American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)From Ancient Greek σκορπιοειδής (skorpioeidēs, "scorpionlike"), from σκορπίος (skorpios, "scorpion") + εἶδος ("form, likeness"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
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The most commonly known are tannin from the bark of nere, oak, chestnut, and scorpioid acacia.
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