漢：-oid是形容詞和名詞後綴,意爲“resembling,that which,person who”

英：word-forming element meaning "like, like that of, thing like a ______," from Latinized form of Greek -oeides, from eidos "form," related to idein "to see," eidenai "to know;" lit. "to see," from PIE *weid-es-, from root *weid- "to see, to know" (see vision). The -o- is connective or a stem vowel from the previous element.

1.anthropoid
adj.man-like 似人類的；類猿的
n.anthropoid animal 類人猿
Geneticists have found the gene to be common to all anthropoid.
遺傳學家發現所有類人猿都具有這一基因。

2.asteroid
n.any of many small planets between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.小行星
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The largest of the asteroids can be seen on a standard telescope.
最大的小行星可以用普通望遠鏡觀測到。

3.spheroid
n.body that is almost spheroid 橢球躰，扁球躰;spher=ball
The ball used in American football is not a spheroid at all.
美式足球中使用的球根本不是橢球躰。

4.tabloid
n.samll size newspaper with many pictures,strip cartoons,etc.and with its news presented in simplified form.
(以轟動性報道爲特點、文簡圖多的)小報；table=plank
Tabloids ran front page stories the next day on the former movie star's divorce.
第二天，小報在頭版登載了這位前電影明星離婚的消息。

5.typhoid
n.infectious disease which attacks the intestines,caused by bacteria taken into the body with food or drink 傷寒症；typh=fog,stupor
Typhoid has killed over half a million Africans since 1993.
自1993年以來，傷寒症已經奪去了50萬非洲人的生命。