vergiform

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English

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Etymology

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From verge (a rod or staff) +‎ -iform.[1]

Adjective

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vergiform (comparative more vergiform, superlative most vergiform)

  1. (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

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  1. ^ vergiform, adj.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.