pediculate
/pɪˈdɪkjʊlət/ /pɛˈdɪkjʊlət/adjective
1 Zoology, Botany, and Medicine = pediculated.
2 Zoology. Of or relating to the order Pediculati of fishes (now usually called Lophiiformes), containing the anglerfishes, members of which are characterized by pectoral fins having an armlike base of elongated radials. Now rare.
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in Thomas Huxley (1825–1895), biologist and science educationist. From classical Latin pediculus pedicle + -ate.
- retrieval
- retrieve
- retrieveless
- retrievement
- retriever
- retrieverish
- retriever-like
- retrigger
- retrim
- retro
- retro-
- retroact
- retroaction
- retroactive
- retroactive amnesia
- retroactive continuity
- retroactive infinitive
- retroactive inhibition
- retroactive interference
- retroactively
- retroactivity
- retro-analysis
- retrobulbar
- retrocalculation
- retrocede