Resembling or related to eels; having eel-like characteristics but not necessarily belonging to the true eel family.
From Latin 'anguilla' (eel) plus Greek '-oid' meaning resembling or similar to. This suffix indicates similarity rather than exact biological classification.
The '-oid' suffix in science means 'kind of like but not exactly'—so anguilloid fish are eel-shaped but may be distantly related to true eels, a useful term for convergent evolution.
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