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heterospecific

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
het-erospe-cif-ic
IPA
26
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of or belonging to a different species.

noun

An organism belonging to a different species to another.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *sḿ̥teros Proto-Hellenic *hə́teros Ancient Greek ἕτερος (héteros)lbor. English hetero- English specific English heterospecific From hetero- + specific.

Inflected Forms

more heterospecific (comparative) most heterospecific (superlative) heterospecifics (plural)

Derived Forms

transheterospecific

Questions

What does heterospecific mean?
Of or belonging to a different species.
Where does heterospecific come from?
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *sḿ̥teros Proto-Hellenic *hə́teros Ancient Greek ἕτερος (héteros)lbor. English hetero- English specific English heterospecific From hetero- + specific.

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