Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cymatotrichous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: cy-ma-totri-c-hous
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

5

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Alternative form of cymotrichous.

Example Sentences

"The Kentja race of Dravido-Australian origin is slender of body and has a long face with a protruding profil, the hair is cymatotrichous, the colour of the skin grows darker towards the feet, the piliation of the body is stronger than in the Malella race; the Kentja race is well represented in Madura."
"The Antarides are brown, cymatotrichous, dolicho-mesocephalic, with rather high heads, leptomesoprosopic, mesoleptorrhinous, and medium statured in comparison to the other populations of the Sunda Arch, so mostly taller than the Palae Mongolids."
"Wavy — (Cymatotrichous). Flat Waved or Broad Waved or Narrow Waved or Curly."

Etymology

FromLatin cȳmat(is) (“sprout, swelling, hollow sphere”) + -o- + trich- + -ous, stem of cȳma, from Ancient Greek κῡ́μᾰτος (kū́mătos, “wave, billow, swell, sprout, fetus”), genitive of κῦμα (kûma).

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: cȳma, κῦμα

Questions

What does cymatotrichous mean?: Alternative form of cymotrichous.
Where does cymatotrichous come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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