Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cancellariid

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: can-cel-lari-id
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any member of the Cancellariidae, or nutmeg snails.

Example Sentences

"More recently, Beu & Maxwell (1987) erected the subfamily Plesiotritoninae to include very high-spired varicate cancellariids with non-collabral axial sculpture that were previously placed in the families Buccinidae, Fasciolariidae and Ranellidae."
"The present paper is a continuation of our study of the deep-water cancellariid fauna of the Southwest Pacific, based on the material originating from recent expeditions in New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Fiji, Tonga, Wallis & Futuna, […]"
"Closely related cancellariid species from California have been observed to feed in this manner, and the deep-water southwestern Florida species may also be a similar suctorial feeder."

Inflected Forms

cancellariids (plural)

Questions

What does cancellariid mean?: Any member of the Cancellariidae, or nutmeg snails.

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