chlorosulfolipid
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any of several lipids consisting of chlorinated alkyl sulfates.
Etymology
Etymology tree English chloro- Latin sulpur Latin sulfur Latin sulphur Anglo-Norman sulfrebor. Middle English sulphur English sulfur Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der. Latin -o-bor. English -o- English sulfo- Proto-Indo-European *leyp- Proto-Hellenic *lípos Ancient Greek λῐ́πος (lĭ́pos) French -ide French lipidebor. English lipid English chlorosulfolipid From chloro- + sulfo- + lipid.