Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having the form of an insect; insect-like; insectile.

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  • This is the work of Johann Beringer, professor in the University of Wurzburg and private physician to the Prince-Bishop -- the treatise bearing the title Lithographiae Wirceburgensis Specimen Primum, "illustrated with the marvellous likenesses of two hundred figured or rather insectiform stones."

    A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom 1896

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