Objects or organisms that resemble air or are related to air in form or function; sometimes used in historical scientific contexts for air-like substances.
From aero- (air) + -oid (resembling, like) + -es (plural). This is a rare, archaic term from earlier scientific nomenclature when scientists used -oid suffixes more liberally to classify similar phenomena.
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