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giant siphonophore

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.08 in modern English

Syllables
gi-ant siphonophore
IPA
28
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
2
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A species of gigantic siphonophore, Praya dubia, growing up to 50 m (160 ft) in length; it lives in the mesopelagic zone to bathypelagic zone at 700 m (2,300 ft) to 1,000 m (3,300 ft) below sea level and has been found off the coasts around the world, from Iceland in the North Atlantic to Chile in the South Pacific.

Inflected Forms

giant siphonophores (plural)

Questions

What does giant siphonophore mean?
A species of gigantic siphonophore, Praya dubia, growing up to 50 m (160 ft) in length; it lives in the mesopelagic zone to bathypelagic zone at 700 m (2,300 ft) to 1,000 m (3,300 ft) below sea level and has been found off the coasts around the world, from Iceland in the North Atlantic to Chile in the South Pacific.

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