Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

protostome

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: pro-to-stome
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any animal, of the taxon Protostomia, in which the mouth is derived from the embryonic blastopore

Etymology

From translingual Protostomia.

Word Breakdown

Root: Protostomia

Inflected Forms

protostomes (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

protostomatous protostomian protostomic protostomous deuterostome

Questions

What does protostome mean?: Any animal, of the taxon Protostomia, in which the mouth is derived from the embryonic blastopore
Where does protostome come from?: From translingual Protostomia.

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