Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pleurembolic

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: pleurem-bol-ic
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Capable of being withdrawn by a backward movement of the parts from which it protrudes so that it becomes engulfed.

Example Sentences

"Some scattered melanophores in fundus of atrium, a few pigment cells along seminal groove. Male atrium (a) narrow in front, wide behind. Its fundus forms a deep fold which receives seminal groove and functions as pleurembolic penis (p)."
"The proboscis wall itself is highly muscular and has longitudinal, circular and diagonal muscle layers. It is of the pleurembolic type characteristic of the Buccinacea."
"The acrembolic type has appeared independently several times in gastropods, including some heterobranchs, while the pleurembolic proboscis may have appeared only once."

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πλευρά (pleurá, “a rib, a side of something”) + Ancient Greek ἔμβολος (émbolos, “peg, stopper”).

Questions

What does pleurembolic mean?: Capable of being withdrawn by a backward movement of the parts from which it protrudes so that it becomes engulfed.
Where does pleurembolic come from?: From Ancient Greek πλευρά (pleurá, “a rib, a side of something”) + Ancient Greek ἔμβολος (émbolos, “peg, stopper”).

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