vergiform

English

Etymology

From verge (“a rod or staff”) +‎ -i- +‎ -form.

Adjective

vergiform (comparative more vergiform, superlative most vergiform)

1. (zoology) Of the feet of certain crustaceans: resembling a rod; rod-like.
   • 1909, Scientific Results of the Trawling Expedition of H.M.C.S. "Thetis" Off the Coast of New South Wales, in February and March, 1898, Sydney, NSW: Australian Museum, page 626:

     Dana's statements that the feet are all vergiform and that the first and second peraeopods, though a little stouter than the gnathopods, are still slender, are irreconcilable with the undoubtedly subchelate character of those peraeopods in Haswell's I. punctatus.