Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cecidium

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ce-cid-i-um
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

4

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A gall produced on a plant by infection from insects etc

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κηκίδιον (kēkídion, “ink-gall”), from κηκίς (kēkís).

Origin

Source language: Ancient Greek

Word Breakdown

Root: κηκίδιον

Inflected Forms

cecidia (plural)

Derived Forms

acarocecidium bacteriocecidium mycocecidium phytoptocecidium zoocecidium

Questions

What does cecidium mean?: A gall produced on a plant by infection from insects etc
Where does cecidium come from?: It is traced to Ancient Greek.

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