Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

linguliform

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: lin-guli-form
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

resembling a lingula

noun

Any brachiopod of the subphylum Linguliformea

Example Sentences

"This study concerns all infaunal brachiopods that possess an inarticulate, organo-phosphatic, linguliform shell."

Etymology

From lingula + -iform.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: lingula

Inflected Forms

linguliforms (plural)

Questions

What does linguliform mean?: resembling a lingula
Where does linguliform come from?: From lingula + -iform.

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