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flaplike

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Etymology

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From flap +‎ -like.

Adjective

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flaplike (comparative more flaplike, superlative most flaplike)

  1. Similar to a flap
    • 2009 February 6, Gabriele Kuhl et al., “A Great-Appendage Arthropod with a Radial Mouth from the Lower Devonian Hunsruck Slate, Germany”, in Science[1], volume 323, number 5915, →DOI, pages 771–773:
      An additional large triangular flaplike appendage at the rear of the head is thickened along its margin.