Resembling the brain in structure, appearance, or function; brain-like.
From Latin cerebrum (brain) + Greek -oid (resembling or similar to). The -oid suffix is widely used in science to indicate a similarity or analogy to the base term.
Coral and certain fungi develop cerebroid structures because their branching, convoluted growth patterns mimic a brain's surface—nature keeps reinventing the same wrinkled design because it maximizes surface area for maximum processing power.
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