Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

plecoglossid

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: plecoglos-sid
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any fish of the family Plecoglossidae (sometimes regarded as a subfamily, Plecoglossinae in Osmeridae); the ayu or sweetfish.

Example Sentences

"1984, Excerpta Medica, Section 3: Endocrinology, Volume 51, page 251, Furthermore, the antibody to sPRL reacted only with PRL cells in the pituitaries of three species of salmonids, a plecoglossid, eel, carp, goldfish, killifish, tilapia, and five species of marine fishes, […] ."
"1986, Southwest Fisheries Center (U.S.), Collected Reprints, Issue 1, page 370, Iwai & Rosenthal (1981), and Watanabe (1984b) have observed ciliated cells and cilia movement that aid in the transport of food in the alimentary canals of some plecoglossid, osmerid, clupeid, and salangid larvae."
"Families included here include prototroctids, most diadromous galaxiids, a plecoglossid, mugiloidid, and some eleotrids and gobiids."

Inflected Forms

plecoglossids (plural)

Synonyms

ayu sweetfish

Questions

What does plecoglossid mean?: Any fish of the family Plecoglossidae (sometimes regarded as a subfamily, Plecoglossinae in Osmeridae); the ayu or sweetfish.

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