superbine
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "Gloriosa superba: spectacularly beautiful climbing lily. Roots, stalks, leaves contain an acrid narcotic, superbine, as well as colchicine and choline. Three grains of colchicine are fatal. Hawaii."
- "Other publications report the presence of a toxic compound, superbine, which is experimentally lethal to a cat in a dose as small as 0.01 g (0.00036 oz)."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: Gloriosa superba
- Root: superbus
- Suffix: -ine