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melanian

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
mela-ni-an
IPA
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

One of a family (Melaniidae) of freshwater pectinibranchiate mollusks with a turret-shaped shell, now considered a synonym of the family Thiaridae, but also containing many species since reclassified into other families.

Obsolete

Etymology

From the obsolete genus Melania.

Usage

Inflected Forms

melanians (plural)

Questions

What does melanian mean?
One of a family (Melaniidae) of freshwater pectinibranchiate mollusks with a turret-shaped shell, now considered a synonym of the family Thiaridae, but also containing many species since reclassified into other families.
Where does melanian come from?
From the obsolete genus Melania.

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