Scorpioid Definition

skôrpē-oid
adjective
Like a scorpion.
Webster's New World
Of the order consisting of the scorpions.
Webster's New World
Having a zig-zag shape as a result of buds being produced alternately on opposite sides of the peduncle.
A scorpioid cyme.
American Heritage
With a curved end, like a scorpion's tail; circinate.
Webster's New World

Origin of Scorpioid

  • From Ancient Greek σκορπιοειδής (skorpioeidÄ“s, “scorpionlike"), from σκορπίος (skorpios, “scorpion") + εἶδος (eidos, “form, likeness").

    From Wiktionary

  • Greek skorpioeidēs scorpionlike skorpios scorpion -oeidēs -oid

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Scorpioid Sentence Examples

  • Here there are scorpioid cymes of pairs of flowers, each pair consisting of an older and a younger flower.

  • The supposed hydrothecae may be present on one side of the axis only (monoprionid) or on both sides (diprionid); the first case may be conjectured to be the result of uniserial (helicoid) budding, the second to be produced by biserial (scorpioid) budding.

  • The inflorescence in the family Boraginaceae are usually regarded as true scorpioid cymes.

  • In Saxifraga umbrosa (London-pride) and in the horse-chestnut we meet with a raceme of scorpioid cymes; in sea-pink, a capitulum of contracted scorpioid cymes (often called a glomerulus); in laurustinus, a compound umbel of dichasial cymes; a scorpioid cyme of capitula in Vernonia scorpioides.

  • Scorpioid Cyme of Capitula, Vernonia scorpioides.

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