Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

heteroxenic

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: het-erox-enic
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Relating to soft corals of the genus Heteroxenia

Example Sentences

"However, as we mentioned previously, we believe that the model is applicable to understanding similar processes in most symbioses, including heteroxenic associations (including more than one species of host in the life cycle) [27 –29 ]."

Etymology

Heteroxenia + -ic

Word Breakdown

Suffix: ic

Questions

What does heteroxenic mean?: Relating to soft corals of the genus Heteroxenia
Where does heteroxenic come from?: Heteroxenia + -ic

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