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eruciform

[ ih-roo-suh-fawrm ]

adjective

  1. having the physical characteristics of a caterpillar.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of eruciform1

1870–75; < Latin ērūc ( a ) caterpillar + -i- + -form
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Example Sentences

Pre-eruciform: before the caterpillar stage: specifically applied to the early larvae of some Proctytrypidae.

For reasons which we will not pause here to discuss, we have always regarded the eruciform type of larva as the highest.

Most significant is the precedence of the eruciform by the campodeiform type.

Larva campodeiform, usually feeding by suction (exceptionally hypermetamorphic with subsequent eruciform instars).

Larvae eruciform, with rarely more than five pairs of abdominal prolegs.

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