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parethmoid

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
pareth-moid
IPA
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Near or beside the ethmoid bone or cartilage; applied especially to a pair of bones in the nasal region of some fishes, and to the ethmoturbinals in some higher animals.

noun

A parethmoid bone.

Etymology

From para- + ethmoid.

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

parethmoids (plural)

Rhymes With

ethmoid mesethmoid ectethmoid sphenethmoid sphenoethmoid

Questions

What does parethmoid mean?
Near or beside the ethmoid bone or cartilage; applied especially to a pair of bones in the nasal region of some fishes, and to the ethmoturbinals in some higher animals.
Where does parethmoid come from?
From para- + ethmoid.

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