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galapagos islands

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.91 in modern English

Syllables
gala-pagos is-lands
IPA
21
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

An archipelago off the coast of Ecuador in the Pacific Ocean, famed for their influence on Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection.

Etymology

From Spanish islas Galápagos, first attested as New Latin insulae de los galopegos (“islands of the turtles”) in Abraham Ortelius's 1570 atlas Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, from a variant spelling of Spanish galápago (“turtle”), from Paleo-Hispanic. Cf. Catalan calàpet (“toad”) and Portuguese cágado (“turtle”).

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Inflected Forms

Galápagos Islands (alternative) Galapagos (alternative) Galápagos (alternative) Galapago Islands (alternative)

Questions

What does galapagos islands mean?
An archipelago off the coast of Ecuador in the Pacific Ocean, famed for their influence on Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection.
Where does galapagos islands come from?
It is traced to Spanish.

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