Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bafflestone

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: baf-fle-stone
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A kind of calcareous rock where organisms have acted as baffles during deposition, reducing the local depositional energy.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"The ingredients for recognizing a bafflestone are the presence of a large number of in-situ stalk-shaped fossils, and a good imagination on the part of the geologist."

Etymology

From baffle + stone.

Usage

Inflected Forms

bafflestones (plural)

Questions

What does bafflestone mean?: A kind of calcareous rock where organisms have acted as baffles during deposition, reducing the local depositional energy.
Where does bafflestone come from?: From baffle + stone.

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