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-oid
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’.
Pronunciation
-oid
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