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dorothea's wriggler

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.77 in modern English

Syllables
dorothea's wrig-gler
IPA
26
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
2
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The fish Allomicrodesmus dorotheae.

Etymology

The name honours Dorothea Bowers Schultz, the wife of Leonard Peter Schultz, who illustrated the monograph in which this species is described, although not this species.

Inflected Forms

Dorothea's wrigglers (plural)

Questions

What does dorothea's wriggler mean?
The fish Allomicrodesmus dorotheae.
Where does dorothea's wriggler come from?
The name honours Dorothea Bowers Schultz, the wife of Leonard Peter Schultz, who illustrated the monograph in which this species is described, although not this species.

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