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Webster 1913 Edition


-oid

-oid

(-oid)
s
uff.
[Gr. [GREEK], fr.
εἶδοσ
form, akin to [GREEK] to see, and E.
wit
: cf. F.
-oïde
, L.
-oïdes
.]
A suffix or combining form meaning
like
,
resembling
,
in the form of
;
as in anthrop
oid
, aster
oid
, spher
oid
.