Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hydrid

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: hy-drid
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Archaic form of hydride.

Archaic

noun

Any of the meteors in a meteor shower that appears to come from the constellation Hydra.

Example Sentences

"a similarly bright meteor at 12ʰ 33ᵐ was probably an α Hydrid"
"The radiant analysis that included orbits from the Croatian Meteor Network Catalogues of Orbits 2007 to 2010 plus the orbits from the SonotaCo catalogues for 2007 to 2011 revealed a possible new Hydrid stream with radiant running parallel to, but distinct from, the sigma Hydrids."

Etymology

From Hydra + -id.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: Hydra

Usage

Archaic

Inflected Forms

hydrids (plural)

Questions

What does hydrid mean?: Archaic form of hydride.
Where does hydrid come from?: From Hydra + -id.

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