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hormogonium

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
hor-mogo-ni-um
IPA
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A small, motile filament, formed by some cyanobacteria, that detaches and grows by cell division into a new filament.

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ὁρμή (hormḗ, “first movements”) + -gonium.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

hormogonia (plural)

Synonyms

hormogone

Questions

What does hormogonium mean?
A small, motile filament, formed by some cyanobacteria, that detaches and grows by cell division into a new filament.
Where does hormogonium come from?
It is traced to Ancient Greek.

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