abrocomid
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any of the caviomorph rodents of the family Abrocomidae of chinchilla rats.
Example Sentences
- "The Andean families (chinchillids, octodontids, abrocomids, and many ctenomyids) are not subject to the same climatological forces affecting species in the lowland tropics."
- "Caviids are grassland-scrubland species, while abrocomids are small herbivores of xeric Andean habitats."
- "This is likely to be the plesiomorphic state, as it is thus in capromyids, octodontids, abrocomids, and cuniculids."