caducean
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The scene was unchanged; and even in winter the soul of beauty hovered over it, ready again to reanimate the corpse, when the caducean wand of spring should touch it."
- "He loved "Simplicissimus" as his nom de main—often simplified to S-s or simply s, which he called The Snake, the savior of woman: his caducean sign of a mental health and guilelessness somewhat inconsonant with his equally sincere claim to be "the Hermes of good news who teaches knowledge of good and evil!""
- "This is apparent in her relationship with the caducean snakes, Mack and Mike ( 'macrocosm' and 'microcosm' respectively ) in which she takes the role of disciple to their teacher as her journey unfolds."
- "In fact, this hieroglypic was eliminated from Salmon's editions, which substituted a caducean image of two serpents devouring each other (illustrated sixth from the left in Salmon's diagram, fig. 2) for the original virgin-dragon picture."
Inflected Forms
more caducean (comparative)
most caducean (superlative)