Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ectocochlear

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ec-to-cochlear
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Having the shell external to the body.

Example Sentences

"These may be very elongate (longicone) or short and rather swollen (brevicone). It has been generally assumed that all fossil cephalopods with straight or curved shells were ectocochlear, i.e. that the shell was wholly external to the body."
"Such markings would be apparent only if they were external; this is regarded as good evidence that in such taxa the conch was ectocochlear. Additional evidence is given by cells encrusted with oriented patterns of epizoans that attached[…]"

Questions

What does ectocochlear mean?: Having the shell external to the body.

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