xerces blue
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.31 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A recently extinct species of gossamer-winged butterfly (Lycaenidae), Glaucopsyche xerces.
Example Sentences
- "Last seen at the Presidio, the Xerces blue finally passed from existence in 1943."
- "In fact, the xerces blue survived that first wave of habita destruction, only to succumb in the 1940s to continuing development especially of sand dune habitats."
- "The Brown Satyr butterfly, endemic to San Francisco, where I live, became extinct sometime in the 19th century, and the Xerxes Blue vanished during World War Two when its Golden Gate habitat was overtaken by military expansion."