chlorophylly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
28
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Reminiscent of chlorophyll or green plants.
Example Sentences
- "“Real” parsley (as we think of the flat-leaf variety) has a less chlorophylly, more foodlike flavor that plays an important supporting role in innumerable Italian dishes."
- "it tasted so good in the mouth — that crisp green chlorophylly zing that tasted like the first day of Spring felt"
- "The wet grass felt oddly distinct underfoot, and […] I could smell it and knew what it would taste like. I was all in chlorophylly tune with the grass, imagining the woof and warp of roots"
- "I predict that facultative embryo chlorophylly […] will be rarely encountered. Facultative chlorophylly would confound the very precise mechanisms that the maternal parent must have for resource allocation to seeds."
- "In the case of Phalaenopsis, no particularly significant differences have been noted among the species with the exception of chlorophylly in subgenera Aphyllae and Polychilos. […] The flowers of this section do not exhibit post-pollination chlorophylly of the perianth."
- "Again, no association between gene copy number of chlorophylly strategy was observed in Xerophyta."
Etymology
From chlorophyll + -y (suffix from Old English -iġ).
Word Breakdown
Usage
Inflected Forms
more chlorophylly (comparative)
most chlorophylly (superlative)