Meanings
adjectivenasutiform (not comparable)
- not comparablebiologyHaving a nasus.
The large subfamily Nasutitermitinae includes many species which have soldiers with a pear-shaped, nasutiform head and several species build nests of carton.
1970, Kumar Krishna, Frances M. Weesner, editors, Biology of Termites, volume II, New York, N.Y.; London: Academic Press, page 374
Origin
From nasute (“a kind of termite with a nasus”) + -iform.
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