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dicynodont

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
di-cyn-odont
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A member of the infraorder Dicynodontia of dominant herbivores of the Late Permian, the most successful group of non-mammalian synapsids.

Etymology

From di- + cyno- + -odont. From Ancient Greek δίς (dís, “twice”) + κύων (kúōn, “dog”) + ὀδόντος (odóntos, “tooth”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

dicynodonts (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

cynodont

Questions

What does dicynodont mean?
A member of the infraorder Dicynodontia of dominant herbivores of the Late Permian, the most successful group of non-mammalian synapsids.
Where does dicynodont come from?
It is traced to Ancient Greek.

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