Cancroid: Definition and part of speech

Cancroid

  1. a. Like a cancer; as, a cancroid tumor.
  2. a. Resembling a crab; pertaining to the Cancroidea, one of the families of crabs, including the genus Cancer.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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