Letter A

Amygdaloid

Like an almond.

Almond-shaped.

As the amygdaloid nucleus in the brain, a structure that anatomists thought resembled an almond.

Amygdaloid is pronounced in three syllables: amyg da loid.

From the Greek amydale (almond) + the Greek eidos (like)

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