Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

elpistostegid

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: elpis-toste-gid
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any lobe-finned fish of the extinct family †Elpistostegidae, from the late Devonian period.

Example Sentences

"The recently discovered elpistostegid Tiktaalik probably already had a pair of fins, which could function like vertebrate limbs in shallow waters."

Inflected Forms

elpistostegids (plural)

Questions

What does elpistostegid mean?: Any lobe-finned fish of the extinct family †Elpistostegidae, from the late Devonian period.

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