fundatrigenia
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "At about this time some of the fundatrices mature and give birth, parthenogenetically, to the first fundatrigeniae."
- "R. cerasifoliae (Fitch) and R. viridis, new species, have essentially the same type of life cycle, but in the former fundatrigeniae are often produced throughout much of the summer, while in the latter this stage is never produced."
- "Thus, in the autumn of 1958, no sexual forms were observed in our cultures, of which e.g. strain No. 10 does descend from one fundatrigenia taken from a peachtree in Scania in May, 1954, No. 105 from one on a peachtree in Scania in May, 1956."
Etymology
From New Latin, from fundatri- (from fundātrīx) + -genia (irregular from Ancient Greek -γενής (-genḗs, “born”)).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, -γενής