-oid, -oidal, -oidism, -odic

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

pterygoid

reptiloid

reticuloid

retinoid

1. Resembling the retina.
2. Any of a group of substances related to vitamin A and functioning like vitamin A in the body.

rhabdoid, rhabdoidal

1. Rod-shaped.
2. Resembling a rod.

rheumatoid

rhizoid

1. A slender outgrowth on mosses, liverworts, and the reproductive cells of ferns that absorbs nourishment in much the same way as a root.
2. Any of various slender filaments that function as roots in mosses, ferns, fungi, etc.

rhyssoid

sarcoid

1. Resembling flesh.
2. A small epithelioid tubercle-like lesion characteristic of sarcoidosis (chronic multisystem disease).

sauroid

In zoology, resembling a reptile.

scaphoid

scaraboid

A (gem) similar to a scarab.

scleroid

scolecoid

Resembling a worm.

selenoid

Crescentic.

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