vergiform
Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word vergiform. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word vergiform, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say vergiform in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word vergiform you have here. The definition of the word vergiform will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofvergiform, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
English
Etymology
From verge (“a rod or staff”) + -iform.[1]
Adjective
vergiform (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
- ^ “vergiform, adj.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
