lambdoid, a.
(ˈlæmdɔɪd)
[a. F. lambdoïde, ad. mod.L. lambdoīdēs, ad. Gr. λαµβδοειδ-ής: see lambda and -oid.]
= lambdoidal 1.
| 1597 A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 42/2 In the end of the suture lamdoid, behind vnder the eare. 1741 Monro Anat. (ed. 3) 70 The old Anatomists reckoned the proper Lambdoid Suture to terminate at the Squamous Sutures. 1866 Huxley Preh. Rem. Caithn. 88 There is a large Wormian bone in the right crus of the lambdoid suture. |
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Add: 2. Microbiol. Relating to or mutated from bacteriophage lambda. Also ellipt.
| 1958 Adv. Virus Res. V. 157 Several other phages (lambdoids) which can be considered to belong to the same species as λ have been isolated by Jacob and Wollman. 1968 Ann. Rev. Genetics II. 305 The lambdoid phages provide a set of natural variants of a single species. 1973 R. G. Krueger et al. Introd. Microbiol. xiv. 404/2 Other temperate phages related to λ (the ‘lambdoid’ phages) have very similar properties. 1987 Nature 11 June 465/1 The structural basis of operator binding by the repressor protein of the lambdoid phage 434. |