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meconium

/mɪˈkəʊnɪ.əm/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.88 in modern English

Syllables
meco-ni-um
IPA
/mɪˈkəʊnɪ.əm/
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A dark green mass, the contents of the fetal intestines during the later stages of mammalian gestation, that forms the first feces of the newborn.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Opium.

Countable; Obsolete; Uncountable

Example Sentences

Etymology

From Latin mēcōnium (“opium; excrement of a newborn child”), from Ancient Greek μηκώνιον (mēkṓnion, “poppy-juice, opium”), from μήκων (mḗkōn, “poppy”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: mēcōnium, μηκώνιον

Regional Pronunciation

  • British English: /mɪˈkəʊnɪ.əm/

Usage

Inflected Forms

meconiums (plural)

Derived Forms

meconic

Phrases

meconium aspiration meconium ileus

Synonyms

aunti/aunti Emma big O chandu Chinese tobacco dopium dream gun dream stick fi-do-nie gee God's medicine gondola goric

Rhymes With

plutonium pandemonium polonium harmonium euphonium pelargonium iconium pancuronium vecuronium hydronium diazonium phosphonium

Questions

How do you pronounce meconium?
The recorded pronunciation is /mɪˈkəʊnɪ.əm/.
What does meconium mean?
A dark green mass, the contents of the fetal intestines during the later stages of mammalian gestation, that forms the first feces of the newborn.
Where does meconium come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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