The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromκῡφός“bent”
- English todaycyphosomatic
From Ancient Greek κῡφός (kūphós, “bent”) + σῶμᾰ (sômă, “body”) + -tic.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
cyphosomatic
Today it means: Describing larvae whose dorsal side is curved while the ventral surface remains straight or flat. Full definition →
Ancient Greek κῡφός