Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ulloa's halo

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ul-loa's ha-lo
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Synonym of glory (“optical phenomenon of concentric rings resembling a rainbow”).

Etymology

Named after Antonio de Ulloa of the French Geodesic Mission to the Equator, who witnessed it near the summit of the Pambamarca mountain in the Ecuadorian Andes.

Inflected Forms

Ulloa's halos (plural)

Synonyms

glory

Questions

What does ulloa's halo mean?: Synonym of glory (“optical phenomenon of concentric rings resembling a rainbow”).
Where does ulloa's halo come from?: Named after Antonio de Ulloa of the French Geodesic Mission to the Equator, who witnessed it near the summit of the Pambamarca mountain in the Ecuadorian Andes.

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