Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

epicorium

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: epi-co-ri-um
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The pattern of cell wall thickening which forms the ornamentation on spores of certain types of mushroom (especially of family Entolomataceae).

Etymology

From Latin cŏrĭum ("skin") with the Ancient Greek prefix ἐπί- ("on top of").

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: cŏrĭum

Inflected Forms

epicoria (plural)

Questions

What does epicorium mean?: The pattern of cell wall thickening which forms the ornamentation on spores of certain types of mushroom (especially of family Entolomataceae).
Where does epicorium come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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