Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hindmargin

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.15 in modern English

Syllables: hind-mar-gin
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The hindmost edge, especially when it differs in some property from the rest of the body part.

Example Sentences

"The pronotum in bees is similar to sphecids, but it is always short and sometimes the hindmargin is concavely arcuate."
"All these characters separate N. niveimacula from a sympatric and closely related, unnamed Notocydia species with a narrower white band across the forewing, but also with a scale pencil along the hindmargin of the hindwing cell in the male."

Inflected Forms

hindmargins (plural)

Derived Forms

hindmarginal

Questions

What does hindmargin mean?: The hindmost edge, especially when it differs in some property from the rest of the body part.

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