brachiophore
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The supporting plate for the tentacle-bearing arms on a brachiopod.
Example Sentences
- "The brachiophore or brachial process is a simple, somewhat flat blade located at the notothyrial margin and underlying the notothyrial edge of the interarea."
- "The brachiophore processes may be negligible in the older stocks but were very well developed in some younger forms like Camerella"
- "It is readily distinguished from Schizophoria parafragilis by shape and by its widely diverging brachiophore supporting plates."
Etymology
From brachio- + -phore.