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scaly-foot gastropod

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.94 in modern English

Syllables
sca-ly--foot -gas-tro-pod
IPA
30
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
7
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A marine snail (Chrysomallon squamiferum) that lives near deep-sea hydrothermal vents in the Indian Ocean. It has a foot armored at the sides with iron-mineralised sclerites.

Inflected Forms

scaly-foot gastropods (plural)

Synonyms

scaly-foot snail sea pangolin volcano snail

Questions

What does scaly-foot gastropod mean?
A marine snail (Chrysomallon squamiferum) that lives near deep-sea hydrothermal vents in the Indian Ocean. It has a foot armored at the sides with iron-mineralised sclerites.

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