parotoid

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English

Etymology

From parotid +‎ -oid.

Adjective

parotoid (not comparable)

  1. (anatomy) Of or related to the parotid gland; applied especially to cutaneous glandular elevations above the ear in many toads and frogs.

Noun

parotoid (plural parotoids)

  1. (anatomy) A parotoid gland.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for parotoid”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)