Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

subrefugium

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: sub-refugium
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A subordinate refugium

Example Sentences

"This refugium may have been in close contact with a Slovenian refugium, which might have been just a subrefugium of the former, in which stronger postglacial introgression processes led to its populations’ uniqueness."

Etymology

From sub- + refugium.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: sub

Inflected Forms

subrefugia (plural)

Questions

What does subrefugium mean?: A subordinate refugium
Where does subrefugium come from?: From sub- + refugium.

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