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Webster 1913 Edition


Squaloid

Squa′loid

(skwā′loid)
,
Adj.
[NL.
Squalus
a genus of sharks (fr. L.
squalus
a kind of sea fish) +
-oid
.]
(Zool.)
Like or pertaining to a shark or sharks.

Definition 2024


squaloid

squaloid

English

Adjective

squaloid (comparative more squaloid, superlative most squaloid)

  1. Characteristic of a shark or dogfish
    • 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, p.169:
      The old man cracked a squaloid smile full of toothblack and breakfast scraps.

Noun

squaloid (plural squaloids)

  1. Any dogfish of the family Squalidae