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calcarine

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
cal-carine
IPA
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

spurlike

adj

Pertaining to, or situated near, the calcar avis in the brain.

Etymology

From calcar + -ine.

Word Breakdown

Derived Forms

geniculocalcarine intracalcarine paracalcarine pericalcarine postcalcarine precalcarine retrocalcarine supercalcarine supracalcarine

Phrases

calcarine fissure

Questions

What does calcarine mean?
spurlike
Where does calcarine come from?
From calcar + -ine.

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