Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

macrophylum

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: macro-phy-lum
IPA

25

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A group of two or more related language phylums

Example Sentences

"In Table 3, this is executed synchronically for languages from all parts of the world with the exception of the Indo-European macrophylum, the Uralic macrophylum, and Creole languages, which are considered separately, below."
"Bellwood (2005) has examined the question from an archaeologist's point of View, noting that the Austroasiatic and Miao-Yao families, either singly or together as a macrophylum, may have developed out of the first rice-farming societies of the mid=Yángzi valley."
"Chamorro is an isolate within the Western Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian macrophylum."

Etymology

From macro- + phylum.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: macro

Inflected Forms

macrophyla (plural)

Questions

What does macrophylum mean?: A group of two or more related language phylums
Where does macrophylum come from?: From macro- + phylum.

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