Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

castor sac

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.06 in modern English

Syllables: cas-tor sac
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An organ of a beaver releasing a secretion for refining the animal’s fell, popular in perfumery as under the name castoreum, and formerly used in medicine.

Inflected Forms

castor sacs (plural) castor-sac (alternative)

Questions

What does castor sac mean?: An organ of a beaver releasing a secretion for refining the animal’s fell, popular in perfumery as under the name castoreum, and formerly used in medicine.

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