Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

teilzone

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: teil-zone
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The stratigraphic range of the rock unit between the first and last appearance datum of a particular taxon in a local area, a subset of the global biozone for that taxon.

Etymology

From German Teil + zone. Coined in 1914 by German paleontologist and geologist Josef Felix Pompeckj.

Origin

Source language: German

Word Breakdown

Root: Teil

Inflected Forms

teilzones (plural)

Synonyms

topozone

Questions

What does teilzone mean?: The stratigraphic range of the rock unit between the first and last appearance datum of a particular taxon in a local area, a subset of the global biozone for that taxon.
Where does teilzone come from?: It is traced to German.

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