Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cold spring harbor

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.03 in modern English

Syllables: cold spring har-bor
IPA

27

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

2

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A hamlet in the town of Huntington, Suffolk County, New York, United States.

name

Ellipsis of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

Example Sentences

"And when researchers began to realize that it would be possible to decipher the entire sequence of genes in the human genome, Dr. Watson called them to a meeting at Cold Spring Harbor to discuss it."

Questions

What does cold spring harbor mean?: A hamlet in the town of Huntington, Suffolk County, New York, United States.

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