The story
- Ancient Greek · borrowed fromῥάμφος“beak”
- English todayrhamphoid
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ῥάμφος (rhámphos, “beak”) + -oid.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekῥάμφος all →
rhamphotheca
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
rhamphoid
Today it means: Of a cusp: defined by the equation (y-x²)²=x⁵, which is parametrized by (t²,t⁴+t⁵); having two branches with concavity in the same direction. Full definition →
Ancient Greek ῥάμφος