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Where does “allantoid” come from?

allantoid (English) comes from Italian allantoide, from Ancient Greek ἀλλαντοειδής, from Ancient Greek ἀλλᾶς — sausage.

allantoid (English): Sausage-shaped. Often used to describe spores...

Definitions

  1. Sausage-shaped. Often used to describe spores...

Ancestry of “allantoid”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianallantoideallantois
2Ancient Greekἀλλαντοειδήςsausage-shaped
3Ancient Greekἀλλᾶςsausage

Words derived from “allantoid”

  • suballantoid
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