lacrimate
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
adj
Example Sentences
- "In man there is the added ability to weep, or lacrimate, which is an excessive outpouring of the lacrimal gland."
- "We present the first unequivocal evidence that crocodilians lacrimate during meals and that they do so in a peculiar fashion."
- "These symptoms intensify over the next 12 h, during which time she has a runny nose, is lacrimating, and has uncontrollable yawning and intensification of muscle cramping and jerking."
- "Adult shell ca 40 mm in height, thin, fragile; spire elevated, concave, sutures shallow; columella strongly plaited; aperture broadly lacrimate....."
- "Near the middle of the anterior reproductive organ mass, the hermaphroditic duct gives off a short duct that reflects posteriorly and enlarges into a lacrimate ampulla (Fig. 4) in which endogenous sperm are presumably stored (Beeman, 1970a, b; Ghiselin, 1966)."
- "Unicellate smooth-walled fungal spores, mostly medium-sized, spatulate to lacrimate, rarely approaching elliptical; […]"
Etymology
From Latin lacrimāt-, past participial stem of lacrimō.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Suffix: la:lacrima
Inflected Forms
lacrimates (present, singular)
lacrimating (participle, present)
lacrimated (participle, past)
lacrimated (past)
more lacrimate (comparative)
most lacrimate (superlative)