Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

lysiosquilloid

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ly-siosquil-loid
IPA

27

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any mantis shrimp in the superfamily Lysiosquilloidea

Example Sentences

"Members of the family share with lysiosquilloids the subquadrate, distally ribbed propodi of maxillipeds 3-4, but differ in bearing a distinct median carina on the telson."
"The lysiosquilloid Pullosquilla litoralis was previously reported to inhabit only tropical waters less than 2 m deep […]"
"Ahyong (1997) hypothesized that the long ischium of lysiosquilloid stomatopods increased the reach of their raptorial appendages, implying that this allowed these stomatopods a greater striking distance […]"

Inflected Forms

lysiosquilloids (plural)

Questions

What does lysiosquilloid mean?: Any mantis shrimp in the superfamily Lysiosquilloidea

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