exoccipital
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Such a bone.
Example Sentences
- "Primitively the exoccipitals took but little part in the formation of the occipital condyle, but in many later reptiles they form a large part, as in the Chelonia (Fig. 31 b), or even the whole, as in the Amphisbaenia (Fig. 56 b); or, by the recession of the basioccipital, the double condyles of the Cynodontia and mammals."
Etymology
From exo- + occipital.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: exo