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tindar

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
tin-dar
IPA
7
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An elongate ridge of pyroclastic palagonitic tuff, lava delta hyaloclastites, and pillow lavas common in Iceland, erupted subaqueously within an englacial lake during a subglacial volcanic fissure eruption.

Etymology

Coined by American volcanologist John Gilbert Jones in 1968, after the Icelandic word Icelandic tindur (“pinnacle, peak”), although its plural form, tindar has, since Jones' coinage, been used incorrectly as the singular.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

tindars (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

tuya móberg glaciovolcanism

Questions

What does tindar mean?
An elongate ridge of pyroclastic palagonitic tuff, lava delta hyaloclastites, and pillow lavas common in Iceland, erupted subaqueously within an englacial lake during a subglacial volcanic fissure eruption.
Where does tindar come from?
It is traced to Icelandic.

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