cancroid Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the most common form of skin cancer
    squamous cell carcinoma.
  2. adjective of or relating to a cancroid

WordNet

Can"croid adjective
Etymology
Cancer + oid.
Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.) Resembling a crab; pertaining to the Cancroidea, one of the families of crabs, including the genus Cancer.
  2. Like a cancer; as, a cancroid tumor.

Webster 1913