nematodelike

English

Etymology

nematode +‎ -like

Adjective

nematodelike (comparative more nematodelike, superlative most nematodelike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of nematodes.
    • 1935, Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian miscellaneous collections, volume 89, page 33:
      Body of typical nematodelike appearance in free-living forms, swollen in the females of some plant-parasitic species, but without large swollen cells inside.
    • 1975, Robert A. Wardle, James A. MacLeod, Sydney Radinovsky, Advances in the Zoology of Tapeworms: 1950-1970, page 202:
      An aberrant feature of the genus is the nematodelike embryo, a tightly coiled and wormlike form within a separate and loose sac […]
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