Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

stenostomid

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: stenos-to-mid
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any member of the family Stenostomidae of flatworms.

Example Sentences

"AN-DER-LAN (1939), however, thinks that this is not the case of a new genus, but rather of a new species belonging to the stenostomid group, where the same method of feeding is observed."
"The brain lies a little farther forward than in stenostomids but not so far forward as in Chordarium."
"I have found no definite reports of apomictic turbellarians, although the stenostomid Rhynchoscolex is said neither to reproduce by fission (but see Pennak, 1978) nor to possess a male system (Sterrer and Rieger, 1974)."

Inflected Forms

stenostomids (plural)

Questions

What does stenostomid mean?: Any member of the family Stenostomidae of flatworms.

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