Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

dickinsoniomorph

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: dick-in-so-niomorph
IPA

30

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

4

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A member of the genus Dickinsonia.

Example Sentences

"Phylum uncertain, but in the past has been placed in the Phylum Proarticulata based on its "symmetry of gliding reflection" where segments meet along the midline in a zigzag fashion. Class: Vendiamorph; Family: Vendomiidae; possibly a dickinsoniomorph."
"This tool, we suggest, has the potential to be used for testing the unity of an evolutionary clade, such as 'rangeomorphs' and 'dickinsoniomorphs'."
"The taxon is known from shallow-water sediments, and has been veriously interpreted as possibly a dickinsoniomorph, a protoarticulate, a marine alga, a trace fossil, or an erniettomorph (Vickers-Rich et al. in Fedonkin et al. 2007, p . 282; Xiao and Laflamme 2009)."
"'Epibaion', a series of trace fossil impressions in a Proterozoic biomat thought to have beern formed by the dickinsoniomorph Yorgia consuming the surface of the biomat."

Etymology

From Dickinsonia + -o- + -morph. First attested since at least 2007.

Inflected Forms

dickinsoniomorphs (plural)

Questions

What does dickinsoniomorph mean?: A member of the genus Dickinsonia.
Where does dickinsoniomorph come from?: From Dickinsonia + -o- + -morph. First attested since at least 2007.

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