myriapodlike

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adjective

Resembling or characteristic of myriapods.

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Meanings

adjectivemyriapodlike (comparative more myriapodlike, superlative most myriapodlike)

comparative more myriapodlike · superlative most myriapodlike

  1. Resembling or characteristic of myriapods.

    Brauer (1868) suggests the origin of insects from a myriapodlike ancestor.

    1959 [1942], S. W. Frost, Insect Life and Insect Natural History (Formerly Entitled: General Entomology), second revised edition, New York, NY: Dover Publications, Inc., page 11
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    […]; styli interpreted as vestiges of locomotor appendages inherited from myriapodlike ancestors; […]

    1973, William S. Romoser, The Science of Entomology, New York, NY: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., →ISBN, page 318

    The insects that are the most highly evolved of protostomes are envisaged as having evolved from an annelidlike ancestor in stages resembling the onychophorans, followed by myriapodlike forms.

    1983, Rudolf A. Raff, Thomas C. Kaufman, Embryos, Genes, and Evolution: The Developmental-Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Change, New York, NY: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., →ISBN, page 133

Origin

From myriapod + -like.

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