leptostracan
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any crustacean of the order Leptostraca.
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."
Etymology
Leptostraca + -an
Word Breakdown
- Suffix: an