atrous
/ˈeɪtɹəs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Dilated (used when describing convolutions).
Example Sentences
- "Male atrous leadcolourd^([sic]) on the upper side, under side a mixture of whitish and ferruginous with cuspidate fasciae ;"
- "Head atrous, viridescent on lateral frontal spaces and occiput, gulae, basal part of mentum on each side of median tooth brightly viridescent; prothorax atrous, with viridescent tints on disc and wide brassy-green basal and lateral margins."
- "Perithecia sparse, innate, then erumpent for apical portion, subglobose, atrous, with ostiollar portion a little enlarged."
- "An imposing portrait of a Caucasian male holding an atrous book with a sheepish smile hung ominously over the bed."
- "The throng shouted, female Eligor flung flowers from the roofs as the rhythmic chiming of iron-shod riding beasts came clearer, and the first of the mighty array swung into view in the broad, atrous streets that curved round the spired Grand Union of Imperial Opal."
- "Atrous convolution allows us to explicitly control the resolution."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more atrous (comparative)
most atrous (superlative)