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Squaroid vs Squaloid - What's the difference?

squaroid | squaloid |

As nouns the difference between squaroid and squaloid

is that squaroid is roughly a square; a square-like shape while squaloid is any dogfish of the family Squalidae

As an adjective squaloid is

characteristic of a shark or dogfish.

squaroid

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (rare) Roughly a square; a square-like shape
  • * 1875 , Bernhard Marks, Marks' first lessons in geometry: In two parts , Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor, & Company, page 158:
    • If the rectangle had been called a squaroid , the difficulty would have been repeated.

    squaloid

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Characteristic of a shark or dogfish
  • * 1979 , Cormac McCarthy, Suttree , Random House, p.169:
    • The old man cracked a squaloid smile full of toothblack and breakfast scraps.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any dogfish of the family Squalidae