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perikyma

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
periky-ma
IPA
19
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of the pits around the long prisms of tooth enamel, indicating the places where enamel-producing cells used to make contact with neighbouring cells.

Etymology

From Ancient Greek περι- (peri-) + κῦμα (kûma).

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

perikymata (plural)

Questions

What does perikyma mean?
Any of the pits around the long prisms of tooth enamel, indicating the places where enamel-producing cells used to make contact with neighbouring cells.
Where does perikyma come from?
It is traced to Ancient Greek.

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