Meanings
adjectivevergiform (comparative more vergiform, superlative most vergiform)
comparative more vergiform · superlative most vergiform
- biologyOf the feet of certain crustaceans: resembling a rod; rod-like.
Dana's statements that the feet are all vergiform and that the first and second peraeopods, though a little stouter than the gnathopods, are still slender, are irreconcilable with the undoubtedly subchelate character of those peraeopods in Haswell's I. punctatus.
1909, Scientific Results of the Trawling Expedition of H.M.C.S. "Thetis" Off the Coast of New South Wales, in February and March, 1898, Sydney, NSW: Australian Museum, page 626
Origin
From verge (“a rod or staff”) + -iform.
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