cyrtomatodont
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
noun
A knob- or hook-shaped hinge tooth on the shell of a brachiopod.
Example Sentences
- "The deltidiodont morphology did not survive the end-Permian extinctions; the modern articulated brachiopod fauna is dominated by cyrtomatodonts with crurae and loops."
Etymology
See cyrto- / κυρτός (kurtós), -odont / ὀδούς (odoús).