Resembling or having properties similar to cyanamide or other cyanogen-based compounds.
From cyanamide + -oid (meaning 'resembling or having the form of'). The suffix -oid comes from Greek eidos, meaning 'form' or 'appearance', and was widely adopted in scientific nomenclature.
The -oid suffix is one of science's most productive naming tools—humanoid, asteroid, android, tabloid—all meaning 'like' or 'resembling' their root word, making it easy for scientists to describe new substances by comparing them to known ones.
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