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scorpioid, a. and n.|ˈskɔːpɪɔɪd|
[ad. Gr. σκορπιοειδής, f. σκορπίο-ς scorpion: see -oid.]
A. adj.
1. Bot. (See quot. 1875.)
1839Lindley Introd. Bot. i. ii. (ed. 3) 160 The cyme of Monocotyledons..is helicoid or scorpioid, according as its peduncles are homodromal or antidromal. 1875Bennett & Dyer Sachs' Bot. 159 note, The term scorpioid was introduced by H. P. De Candolle..to express a unilateral cyme the undeveloped portion of which is usually rolled up... Bravais amended De Candolle's definition of the scorpioid cyme by pointing out that the flowers are in two rows parallel to the pseud-axis. 1896G. Henslow Wild Flowers 156 The flowers are arranged in scorpioid or curled racemes.
2. Zool.
a. Resembling a scorpion; belonging to the scorpion family.
b. Resembling the tail of a scorpion; ‘cincinnal; coiled in a flat spiral’ (Cent. Dict.).
1864Webster, Scorpioid, Scorpion-like.
B. n.
1. Bot. (See quot.)
1855Ogilvie Suppl., Scorpioid, an inflorescence which is rolled up towards one side, in the manner of a crosier, unrolling as the flowers expand. 1866in Treas. Bot.
2. Zool. A scorpion or scorpion-like animal.
1887A. Heilprin Distrib. Animals 146 The discovery of a true scorpioid (Palæophoneus) in the Upper Silurian deposits of both Sweden and Scotland. |