Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

nasute

/neɪˈsuːt/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
na-sute
IPA
/neɪˈsuːt/
6
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Having a long snout.

adj

Having a sensitive sense of smell.

Obsolete

adj

pedantic; captious

Obsolete

noun

A kind of termite with a nasus.

Example Sentences

Etymology

From Latin nāsūtus.

Usage

Inflected Forms

more nasute (comparative) most nasute (superlative) nasutes (plural)

Derived Forms

Questions

How do you pronounce nasute?
The recorded pronunciation is /neɪˈsuːt/.
What does nasute mean?
Having a long snout.
Where does nasute come from?
From Latin nāsūtus.

How to pronounce nasute

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