psammobiotic
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "Thus, with the exception of the narrower beaches, and Michigan and Pallette, the psammobiotic rotifers were concentrated at the edge or beyond the area of saturation on the beaches."
- "A total of 47 interstitial testate amoebas have been recorded in the Bulgarian Black Sea coast. Of these, 32 are psammobiotic, 11 are psammophilic, and 4 are psammoxenic."
- "The psammobiotic species are usually particularly small (mostly around 50 μm), and the shell is often flattened."
- "The North American endemic Trichocerca are remarkable. This group contains nine species (13.4% of Trichocera; Table 3), all of which have been found on several occasions. Of these, only one is psammobiotic, thus inhabits a habitat that has only sporadically been investigated worldwide."
Etymology
From psammo- + -biotic.