nematodelike
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]nematodelike (comparative more nematodelike, superlative most nematodelike)
- Resembling or characteristic of nematodes.
- 1935, Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian miscellaneous collections, volume 89, page 33:
- Body of typical nematodelike appearance in free-living forms, swollen in the females of some plant-parasitic species, but without large swollen cells inside.
- 1975, Robert A. Wardle, James A. MacLeod, Sydney Radinovsky, Advances in the Zoology of Tapeworms: 1950-1970, page 202:
- An aberrant feature of the genus is the nematodelike embryo, a tightly coiled and wormlike form within a separate and loose sac […]