tardigrade
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin tardigradus (“slowly stepping”), from tardus (“slow”) + gradior (“step, walk”)
Adjective
tardigrade (comparative more tardigrade, superlative most tardigrade)
- Sluggish; moving slowly.
- 1850, Joses Badcock, “Botany; or, Phytology”, in Poems, volume 1, page 67:
- Each tendril ending in a perfect claw, / Obeys the whole routine of Nature's law; / Transforms each sinus to a sylvan shade, / Though p'rhaps its force is rather tardigrade.
- 1863, George Eliot, Romola:
- He ran on into the piazza, but he quickly heard the tramp of feet behind him, for the other two prisoners had been released, and the soldiers were struggling and fighting their way after them, in such tardigrade fashion as their hoof-shaped shoes would allow—impeded, but not very resolutely attacked, by the people.
Derived terms
Translations
sluggish, moving slowly
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Etymology 2
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] New Latin Tardigrada.
Noun
tardigrade (plural tardigrades)
- (zoology) A member of the animal phylum Tardigrada.
- Sloth.
Synonyms
- (one of Tardigrada): water bear
Translations
water bear — see water bear
References
- “tardigrade”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “tardigrade”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Italian
Adjective
tardigrade f pl
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