suboxic
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Describing a zone of water, between the oxic and anoxic zones, in which the concentration of oxygen (and sulfur) is very low
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Italic *supo Latin sub Latin sub-der. English sub- English oxic English suboxic From sub- + oxic.