Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sepioid

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: se-pi-oid
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A member of a clade of cephalopods including the cuttlefish and related species, typically held to include bottletail squid, bobtail squid and pygmy squid.

Example Sentences

"As hinted at by the pygmy's glue gland, sepioids house some of the flat-out weirdest members of the modern cephalopod family."

Etymology

From sepia + -oid.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: sepia

Inflected Forms

sepioids (plural)

Questions

What does sepioid mean?: A member of a clade of cephalopods including the cuttlefish and related species, typically held to include bottletail squid, bobtail squid and pygmy squid.
Where does sepioid come from?: From sepia + -oid.

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