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testudineous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
tes-tudi-neous
IPA
13
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Characteristic of a tortoise, or the shell of a tortoise.

adj

As slow as a tortoise.

Etymology

From Latin testūdin- + -eous, from oblique stem of Latin testūdō, from testa.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

more testudineous (comparative) most testudineous (superlative) testudinous (alternative)

Questions

What does testudineous mean?
Characteristic of a tortoise, or the shell of a tortoise.
Where does testudineous come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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