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Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cartilagineous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
car-ti-lagi-neous
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Archaic form of cartilaginous.

Archaic

Example Sentences

Etymology

From French cartilagineux or directly from Latin cartilāginōsus.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: cartilagineux, cartilāginōsus

Usage

Inflected Forms

more cartilagineous (comparative) most cartilagineous (superlative)

Questions

What does cartilagineous mean?
Archaic form of cartilaginous.
Where does cartilagineous come from?
It is traced to French.

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