overproliferate
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
Example Sentences
- "The Ras and Notch-driven epithelial tumors develop in the eye-antennal imaginal disc which is not thought to contain epithelial stem cells, however, the eye disc does contain progenitor cells that can also overproliferate in response to excessive STAT activity."
Etymology
From over- + proliferate.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: over