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hydrophid

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
hy-drophid
IPA
22
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any sea snake of the subfamily Hydrophiinae, venomous, preying on fishes, with a flattened tail for swimming.

Etymology

From hydro- + Ancient Greek ὄφις (óphis, “a small serpent”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

hydrophids (plural)

Synonyms

coral reef snake sea snake

Questions

What does hydrophid mean?
Any sea snake of the subfamily Hydrophiinae, venomous, preying on fishes, with a flattened tail for swimming.
Where does hydrophid come from?
It is traced to Ancient Greek.

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