The story
From homoe- + -oid, from Ancient Greek: ὅμοιος (hómoios, “of like kind”, “similar”) in conjunction with εἶδος (eîdos, “form, likeness”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
homoeoid
Today it means: A boundlessly thin shell constrained by a couple of similar surfaces with nearly identical orientations. Full definition →