Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

common purple-glossed snake

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.60 in modern English

Syllables: com-mon pur-ple--glossed s-nake
IPA

40

Scrabble Score

24

Letters

6

Syllables

14

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Amblyodipsas polylepis, a species of venomous sub-Saharan snake.

Etymology

From common + purple-glossed snake (any snake in the genus "Amblyodipsas").

Inflected Forms

common purple-glossed snakes (plural)

Questions

What does common purple-glossed snake mean?: Amblyodipsas polylepis, a species of venomous sub-Saharan snake.
Where does common purple-glossed snake come from?: From common + purple-glossed snake (any snake in the genus "Amblyodipsas").

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