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colporate

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
col-po-rate
IPA
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Having apertures which combine a rounded pore and a colpus, or groove.

Example Sentences

Etymology

From colpus + pore + -ate (adjective-forming suffix). By surface analysis, colpor- + -ate.

Inflected Forms

more colporate (comparative) most colporate (superlative)

Derived Forms

heterocolporate pericolporate pseudocolporate stephanocolporate tetracolporate tricolporate zonocolporate

Frequently Paired Words

colpate porate

Questions

What does colporate mean?
Having apertures which combine a rounded pore and a colpus, or groove.
Where does colporate come from?
From colpus + pore + -ate (adjective-forming suffix). By surface analysis, colpor- + -ate.

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