ramidus
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.11 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The first ramidus fossil found was an upper molar tooth, unearthed in 1992."
- "Ramidi were in many ways a mix of humans and chimps. Their smallish brains were barely larger than those of a modern chimp. But they held their heads on the top of the vertebral column instead of in front of it; ie, they walked upright. It is likely that ramidus was the ancestor of all subsequent hominid species, including our own."
- "It is the birthplace of human beings' ancestor Lucy, who lived 3.2 million years ago; an older ancestor, Ardi, who lived 4.4 million years ago; and the even older ramidus who lived 5.8 million years before humans' known written history."
- "Ramidus was either an early intermediate hominid or a dead end that faded out without diverging into more species."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, ramid