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Webster 1913 Edition
Tardigrade
Tar′di-grade
,Adj.
[L.
tardigradus
; tardus
slow + gradi
to step: cf. F. tardigrade
.] 1.
Moving or stepping slowly; slow-paced.
[R.]
G. Eliot.
2.
(Zool.)
Of or pertaining to the Tardigrada.
Tar′di-grade
,Noun.
(Zool.)
One of the Tardigrada.
Webster 1828 Edition
Tardigrade
T`ARDIGRADE
Definition 2024
tardigrade
tardigrade
English
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.
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Derived terms
Translations
sluggish, moving slowly
Etymology 2
From New Latin Tardigrada.
Noun
tardigrade (plural tardigrades)
- (zoology) A member of the animal phylum Tardigrada.
Synonyms
Translations
water bear — see water bear