vergiform
English
editEtymology
editFrom verge (“a rod or staff”) + -iform.[1]
Adjective
editvergiform (comparative more vergiform, superlative most vergiform)
- (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.
References
edit- ^ “vergiform, adj.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.