-oid, -oidal, -oidism, -odic

(Greek: a suffix; like, resembling, similar to, form)

isophytoid

An individual plant of a compound plant-organism, not differentiated from the rest.

isozooid

A zooid, or individual of a compound or “colonial” animal organism, not differentiated from the rest; opposite of allozooid.

keratoid

leptocephaloid

Resembling or having the shape of eel larvae.

leptoid

One of the living elongated thin-walled cells forming simple conducting tissue in bryophytes; a tubular cell in the stem of certain pteridophytes (ferns).

leukemoid

lipoid

lipoid, lipoidal, lipoidic, lipoidous

1. Fatlike; resembling fat; adipoid.
2. The former name for lipid, et al.

lipomatoid

Resembling a lipoma, frequently said of accumulations of adipose tissue that is not thought to be neoplastic.

lithoid

Like or similar to a stone; resembling a rock.

lithoidolatry

The worship of rock-like formations.

lupoid

A reference to or resembling lupus.

lyssoid

Resembling rabies; rabiform.

mammilloid

masculinoid

Masculine (but not male); of male form or appearance; appearing like a male, or similar, to a male.

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