thermosbaenacean
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any member of the Thermosbaenacea, a group of crustaceans found in thermal springs.
Example Sentences
- "In the case of leptostracans, brooding takes place ventrally between the mother’s thoracopods, which form a large basket holding the developing embryos, while brooding in thermosbaenaceans takes place dorsally under an enlarged part of the carapace, and that of isopods take place ventrally in a marsupium formed, probably, by modified thoracopodal epipods."