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pollinose

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
polli-nose
IPA
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Having the surface covered with a fine yellow dust, like pollen.

Etymology

From oblique stem of Latin pollen, pollinis + -ose.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

more pollinose (comparative) most pollinose (superlative)

Questions

What does pollinose mean?
Having the surface covered with a fine yellow dust, like pollen.
Where does pollinose come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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