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grus

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.53 in modern English

Syllables
grus
IPA
5
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An accumulation of angular, coarse-grained fragments (particles of sand and gravel) resulting from the chemical and mechanical weathering of crystalline rocks.

name

A spring constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a crane. It contains the star Alnair and lies south of the constellation Piscis Austrinus.

Etymology

Named by Dutch explorers Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman between 1595 and 1597. From Latin grūs (“a crane (bird)”), originally from Proto-Indo-European *gerh₂- (“to cry hoarsely”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: grūs, *gerh₂-

Inflected Forms

gruses (plural)

Derived Forms

Gruis

Questions

What does grus mean?
An accumulation of angular, coarse-grained fragments (particles of sand and gravel) resulting from the chemical and mechanical weathering of crystalline rocks.
Where does grus come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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