ventilatory
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.70 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of, pertaining to, functioning as, or by means of a ventilator.
Example Sentences
- "Indeed, they possess not only a ventilatory system, composed of two scaphognathites ventilating a domiciliar cavity, but also a cardiovascular system composed of a well-differentiated heart and, in the Cylindroleberid family, 6-8 lamellar gills (Vannier et al., 1996; Horne et al., 2002)."
Etymology
From ventilate + -ory.
Inflected Forms
more ventilatory (comparative)
most ventilatory (superlative)