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sea star wasting disease

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.98 in modern English

Syllables
sea s-tar wast-ing dis-ease
IPA
26
Scrabble Score
21
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A disease of starfish and several other echinoderms appearing sporadically, causing mass mortality of those affected.

Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

seastar wasting disease (alternative) sea-star wasting disease (alternative)

Synonyms

starfish wasting disease

Questions

What does sea star wasting disease mean?
A disease of starfish and several other echinoderms appearing sporadically, causing mass mortality of those affected.

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