Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

arctic mouse-ear

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.75 in modern English

Syllables: arc-tic -mouse-ear
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A perennial herb, Cerastium arcticum, growing in parts of the Arctic.

Example Sentences

"Dainty Arctic mouse ears with their distinctive double-lobed petals speckle the heath close by my own roost, paper-thin flowers springing from a tangled mat of foliage that forms little islands in the grass."

Inflected Forms

Arctic mouse-ears (plural)

Synonyms

alpine mouse-ear cerastium alpinum

Questions

What does arctic mouse-ear mean?: A perennial herb, Cerastium arcticum, growing in parts of the Arctic.

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