-oidea

1. a suffix used in the names of zoological classes or entomological superfamilies.

-oidea

suffix forming plural proper nouns

1. forming the names of zoological classes or superfamilies

   Crinoidea

   Canoidea

Word History and Origins

Origin of -oidea¹

< New Latin, plural of Greek -oeidēs -oid; -a ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of -oidea¹

from New Latin, from Latin -oīdēs -oid

Example Sentences

“Be japers! that’s an out-an’-out good oidea.

From Project Gutenberg

Super-family: a division of classification less than an order, including a series of family groups more closely related to each other than to similar groups within the order: opinionative and ending in oidea: sometimes hardly different from suborder; but lower than suborder when both terms are employed.

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"Nivver a bit do Oi loike th' oidea av seein' thim boofalo shot onliss Oi can do th' shootin'."

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DOOLAN—"Oi belave it will give ye more ov an oidea wot sort ov a woman me woife is."

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