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suffix
1Zoology
Forming adjectives and nouns denoting an animal belonging to a higher taxon with a name ending in -oidea.‘hominoid’- ‘percoid’
2Forming adjectives and nouns denoting form or resemblance.
‘asteroid’- ‘rhomboid’
Origin
From modern Latin -oides, from Greek -oeidēs; related to eidos ‘form’.
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