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Ericoid vs Cricoid - What's the difference?

ericoid | cricoid |

As adjectives the difference between ericoid and cricoid

is that ericoid is of or pertaining to plants of the genus erica while cricoid is (anatomy) shaped like a ring, usually with reference to the cricoid cartilage.

As a noun cricoid is

(anatomy) the cricoid cartilage.

ericoid

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Of or pertaining to plants of the genus Erica
  • Of plant leaves, small, often leathery, usually needle-like or scale-like, non-deciduous, and generally adapted to poor soils and arid conditions, such as in fynbos and maquis.
  • Of plant habit, having ericoid leaves, slender, scrubby and woody, like many Erica species.

    • cricoid

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (anatomy) Shaped like a ring, usually with reference to the cricoid cartilage.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (anatomy) The cricoid cartilage.
  • * 1972 , Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things , McGraw-Hill 1972, p. 81:
    • What luck that Mr. Romeo still gripped and twisted and cracked that crooked cricoid as X-rayed by the firemen and mountain guides in the street.