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chelosauria lovelli

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
ch-e-losauri-a lovel-li
IPA
26
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The moha moha.

Etymology

Coined by William Saville-Kent, assistant curator at the Natural History Museum in London, who wrote an account of the creature in his book The Great Barrier Reef of Australia (W.H. Allen, London, 1893) based on Miss Lovell's accounts. The name means roughly "[Mister] Lovell's tortoise-lizard". (Reference: Malcolm Smith, Bunyips and Bigfoots: In Search of Australia's Mystery Animals, Millennium Books, 1996, →ISBN.)

Questions

What does chelosauria lovelli mean?
The moha moha.
Where does chelosauria lovelli come from?
Coined by William Saville-Kent, assistant curator at the Natural History Museum in London, who wrote an account of the creature in his book The Great Barrier Reef of Australia (W.H. Allen, London, 1893) based on Miss Lovell's accounts. The name means roughly "[Mister] Lovell's tortoise-lizard". (Reference: Malcolm Smith, Bunyips and Bigfoots: In Search of Australia's Mystery Animals, Millennium Books, 1996, →ISBN.)

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