a. [f. L. cancr- (cancer) crab + -FORM.]

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  1.  Crab-shaped.

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1826.  Kirby & Sp., Entomol. (1828), III. xxxv. 714. The cancriform spiders. Ibid., IV. 394.

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  2.  Pathol. ‘Having the appearance of cancer’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.).

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