enchytraeid
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any of the microdrile oligochaetes of the family Enchytraeidae, which resemble small earthworms.
Example Sentences
- "The effect of fertilizers on the diversity of enchytraeids has not been studied but occurrence of high abundance of enchytraeids after organic manure application has been noted."
- "Enchytraeids probably consume and further process larger fecal pellets and castings of soil macrofauna, such as collembolans and earthworms (Zachariae, 1984; Rusek, 1985)."
- "The exclusion of enchytraeids from many treatises and aquatic oligochaetes keys cannot be justified as approximately one third of the total enchytraeid species (Martin et al. 2008) inhabit aquatic habitats."