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baryonyx

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.19 in modern English

Syllables
bary-onyx
IPA
23
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Baryonyx walkeri, a theropod from the Cretaceous period discovered in 1983 in Surrey, England by William Walker, believed to be an ancestor of Spinosaurus.

Etymology

From Ancient Greek βαρύς (barús, “heavy or strong”) + ὄνυξ (ónux, “claw or talon”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

baryonyxes (plural)

Questions

What does baryonyx mean?
Baryonyx walkeri, a theropod from the Cretaceous period discovered in 1983 in Surrey, England by William Walker, believed to be an ancestor of Spinosaurus.
Where does baryonyx come from?
It is traced to Ancient Greek.

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