Meanings
- not comparableanatomyResembling a drum or tympanum in form or structure.
...smaller bowl-shaped costate anthocyathus derived from cylindrical to tympanoid anthocaulus attached to hard substrates...
2022 March 28, Asuka Sentoku, Keisuke Shimizu, Tsubasa Naka, Yuki Tokuda, “Dimorphic life cycle through transverse division in burrowing hard corals”, in Research Square, →DOI1 more example
...a prolongation of whose wall it seems to be) to the roof of the auditory chamber, which, as the reader will recall, is formed by the tympanoid sheet of connective tissue (the perichondrium) closing the posterior auditory foramen.
1892, “No. I. The Vertebrate Ear”, in Journal of Morphology, volume 6, page 23
Origin
- Ancient Greekτύμπανον“drum”
- Englishtympanoid
From Ancient Greek τύμπανον (túmpanon, “drum”) + -oid.
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