hystricoid

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adjective

Resembling the skin disease hystrix.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

adjectivehystricoid (comparative more hystricoid, superlative most hystricoid)

comparative more hystricoid · superlative most hystricoid

  1. rareResembling the skin disease hystrix.

    the warty outgrowths and more extensive keratoses of the hystricoid form

    1897, William Samuel Gottheil, Illustrated Skin Diseases: An Atlas and Text-book, page 243
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