dactylethra
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
1
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One of several hollow fingerlike projections found on some bryozoans, used to absorb nutrients.
Example Sentences
- "Erkosonea differs from that genus in the presence of dactylethrae instead of tergospores."
- "The dorsal is hardly convex; it is formed by a thick layer of dactylethrae closed by a thin calcareous lamella. The dactylethrae appear on the frontal at the birfurcations."
- "The heterozooids include mainly kenozooids or structures with comparable functions such as rhizoids, dactylethrae, tergozooecia (tergopores), cancelli (vacuolar zooecia), alveoli, firmatopores, nanozooids as well as eleozooids and their derivatives."
- "Instruments used in Stomatology: Bouglosson (tongue scraper or depressor), dactylethra (finger stall), lithanaboleus (parotid duct stone hauler), stomatodiastoleus (mouth opening instrument), sphenarion (wedge to keep mouth open),"
- "The egg gauze was carefully collected from the field after 48 h of exposure and maintained within 10 ml glass dactylethrae."