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hirudinal

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
hiru-d-i-nal
IPA
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of or pertaining to leeches

Obsolete

Etymology

From hirudin + -al. By surface analysis, Latin hirūdo (“leech”) + -in + -al.

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

more hirudinal (comparative) most hirudinal (superlative)

Frequently Paired Words

hirudin

Questions

What does hirudinal mean?
Of or pertaining to leeches
Where does hirudinal come from?
From hirudin + -al. By surface analysis, Latin hirūdo (“leech”) + -in + -al.

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