Meanings
adjectiveflaplike (comparative more flaplike, superlative most flaplike)
comparative more flaplike · superlative most flaplike
- Similar to a flap
An additional large triangular flaplike appendage at the rear of the head is thickened along its margin.
2009 February 6, Gabriele Kuhl et al., “A Great-Appendage Arthropod with a Radial Mouth from the Lower Devonian Hunsruck Slate, Germany”, in Science, volume 323, number 5915, →DOI, pages 771–773
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