eulepidine
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having an embryonic apparatus in which the protoconch is completely enveloped by the deuteroconch, both chambers adhering only at one point of contact.
Example Sentences
- "If it should appear, as Yabe believes (1929), that L. ephippioides is also of the eulepidine type, then there is no specific difference between the two last mentioned species […]"
- "The embryonic chambers are eulepidine."
- "The trybliolepidine type has developed independently from the eulepidine."
Etymology
From eu- + lepidine.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: eu