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verrucous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.29 in modern English

Syllables
ver-ru-cous
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

wart-like, resembling a verruca; verrucose

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin verrūcōsus, from Latin verrūca (“wart”). By surface analysis, verruca + -ous. Doublet of verrucose.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: verrūcōsus, verrūca

Inflected Forms

more verrucous (comparative) most verrucous (superlative)

Phrases

verrucous carcinoma verrucous endocarditis verrucous hemangioma verrucous nevus

Synonyms

wartish warty

Questions

What does verrucous mean?
wart-like, resembling a verruca; verrucose
Where does verrucous come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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