Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

octocoral

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: oc-to-co-ral
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

4

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An anthozoan of the subclass Alcyonaria, having eight-branched tentacles and eight septa.

Example Sentences

"Dr. Michela Mitchell, a taxonomist at the Queensland Museum Network, said in a statement released by Ocean Census it could be a type of deep-sea coral called octocoral."

Etymology

Back-formation from translingual Octocorallia. By surface analysis, octo- + coral.

Word Breakdown

Root: Octocorallia

Inflected Forms

octocorals (plural)

Synonyms

octocorallian octocoralline

Questions

What does octocoral mean?: An anthozoan of the subclass Alcyonaria, having eight-branched tentacles and eight septa.
Where does octocoral come from?: Back-formation from translingual Octocorallia. By surface analysis, octo- + coral.

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