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pulmonate

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
pul-monate
IPA
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Having lungs or similar organs.

adj

Of, relating to, or belonging to the gastropod order Pulmonata (slugs and snails).

noun

A gastropod of the order Pulmonata.

Etymology

From New Latin pulmōnātus (“having lungs”), from pulmō (“lung”) + -ātus.

Word Breakdown

  • Root: pulmōnātus

Inflected Forms

pulmonates (plural)

Questions

What does pulmonate mean?
Having lungs or similar organs.
Where does pulmonate come from?
From New Latin pulmōnātus (“having lungs”), from pulmō (“lung”) + -ātus.

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