Etymology

filicoid

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Today it means: Any fern-like plant. Full definition →

Latin filix
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The story

  1. Latin · learned borrowing fromfilix“fern”
  2. English todayfilicoid

Learned borrowing from Latin filix (“fern”) + English -oid.

Words from the same roots

Latinfilix all →

filicicfiliciform

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