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carnassial

/kəˈnɑːsɪəl/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 1.37 in modern English

Syllables
car-nas-sial
IPA
/kəˈnɑːsɪəl/
12
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

One of the teeth used by a carnivore for shearing flesh, being the last upper premolar and the first lower molar.

Etymology

From French carnass(ier) (“carnivorous”) + -ial, from Occitan carnassa, from carn + -assa (feminine form of Occitan -às), from Latin carn- + -āceus.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

carnassials (plural)

Questions

How do you pronounce carnassial?
The recorded pronunciation is /kəˈnɑːsɪəl/.
What does carnassial mean?
One of the teeth used by a carnivore for shearing flesh, being the last upper premolar and the first lower molar.
Where does carnassial come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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