Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

teliferous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: telif-er-ous
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Having nematocysts or stinging cells.

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"The occurring British forms, though varying much in proportion and contour, fall naturally into four groups, marked by the respective characteristics of (1) One simple sac; (2) A single bi-lobed sac; (3) Two simple teliferous sacs; (4) Two sacs, each bi-lobed (fig. 3)."
"The introduction, a minute description of the organization of the sea-anemones, and in particular of their unique and extraordinary "teliferous" system, has been regarded as the most sustained piece of original writing of a technically scientific character which Philip Gosse has left behind him."
"Internally, it stands absolutely alone amongst our teliferous British species in possessing paired darts or gypsobela within what is now a practically simple though distally bifid stylophore or dart-sac."

Etymology

From Latin tēlum (“dart, spear, missile, offensive weapon, javelin”) + -ferous (“producing, containing”).

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: tēlum

Usage

Obsolete

Frequently Paired Words

telifera

Rhymes With

hydrogeniferous nitrogeniferous chloriniferous maculiferous tungsteniferous strontiferous thalliferous columniferous falciferous squamiferous filamentiferous vermiferous

Questions

What does teliferous mean?: Having nematocysts or stinging cells.
Where does teliferous come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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