scorpioid

comparative more scorpioid · superlative most scorpioid

1. Of, pertaining to, or appearing like a scorpion.
2. biologyResembling a scorpion's tail; circinate.

   a scorpioid cyme

   Synonyms: scorpioidal

plural scorpioids

1. A scorpion-like creature.

   Inflorescence a raceme of dichasial or scorpioid cymes, at times condensed into a dichasium of scorpioids or a simple scorpioid cyme.

   1938, Heber Wilkinson Youngken, A College Textbook of Pharmaceutical Botany, page 592

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   M. Corda justly considers these two fossil scorpioids of Bohemia (the only two of which any account has been yet published) to be among the most remarkable discoveries of modern times.

   1842, Proceedings of the Geological Society of London, volume 3, page 504