Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

mantleslug

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: mantleslug
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

1

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of several air-breathing land slugs of the genera Philomycus or Pallifera.

Example Sentences

"Carolina mantleslug (Philomycus carolinianus) was recorded by Pearce, Nielsen and Rogers (1992) at Bad Gully, at the top of the escarpment above Beaver Basin in beech-sugar maple forest."

Etymology

From mantle + slug, because of the unusually large protective mantle.

Inflected Forms

mantleslugs (plural)

Questions

What does mantleslug mean?: Any of several air-breathing land slugs of the genera Philomycus or Pallifera.
Where does mantleslug come from?: From mantle + slug, because of the unusually large protective mantle.

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