Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

dextrinous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: dex-tri-nous
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Containing large amounts of dextrin.

Example Sentences

"It is of extreme importance that the malt employed should be so good as to render stewing quite unnecessary in order that the beer with its proportion of added saccharine may still be sufficiently dextrinous."

Etymology

From dextrin + -ous.

Inflected Forms

more dextrinous (comparative) most dextrinous (superlative)

Questions

What does dextrinous mean?: Containing large amounts of dextrin.
Where does dextrinous come from?: From dextrin + -ous.

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