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paratonic

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
para-ton-ic
IPA
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Relating to paratonia.

adj

Retarding a plant's growth.

adj

Relating to paratones.

Example Sentences

Etymology

From para- + tonic. In specific use in the medical sense, after French paratonique. In the botanical sense, after German paratonisch.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

more paratonic (comparative) most paratonic (superlative)

Questions

What does paratonic mean?
Relating to paratonia.
Where does paratonic come from?
It is traced to French.

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