opisthokont
/ɒˈpɪsθəʊ̆kɒnt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any of very many eukaryotes, including animals and fungi, whose flagellate cells (if any) propel themselves with a single posterior flagellum.
Example Sentences
- "Based on a single posterior flagellum (opisthokont), flattened, nondiscoid mitochondrial cristae, a chitinous exoskeleton, storage of glycogen instead of starch, lack of chloroplasts, and the code UGA for tryptophan, not chain termination, in their mitochondria, Cavalier-Smith [54] suggests a common origin of the true fungi with animalia and choanoflagellate protozoa (fig. 1)."
- "However, these characters are only sporadically found among the various opisthokont allies (described above)."
- "Although the group embraces taxa that are diverse in morphology and life history, cells of undisputed opisthokonts have a single emergent flagellum which projects behind the cells while they swim. This is treated as defining the opisthokont ancestry."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ɒˈpɪsθəʊ̆kɒnt/
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Frequently Paired Words
opistho-
Opisthokonta