Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hyracine

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: hyracine
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

1

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of or relating to hyraxes.

Example Sentences

"The galeopithecus [sic] unites the bats, the lemurs, and the monkeys, in one natural alliance, as the hyrax unites the rodents and the pachyderms. The proper name for these alliances would be galeopithecine and hyracine […]"
"From out of the early types of the hyracine ungulates—which then possessed the full normal number of teeth in Eutherian mammals; that is to say, three pairs of molars and four pairs of premolars, one pair of canines, and three pairs of incisor teeth in both jaws—developed the elephant order […]"

Etymology

From hyrax + -ine.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: hyrax

Inflected Forms

more hyracine (comparative) most hyracine (superlative)

Questions

What does hyracine mean?: Of or relating to hyraxes.
Where does hyracine come from?: From hyrax + -ine.

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