ichthyopterygium
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
35
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
3
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "As already stated, they are used more like limbs for walking than fins for swimming, but this physiological resemblance to the limbs of the higher animals is not borne out by a morphological one; the fin is an ichthyopterygium, and shows no tendency towards modification in the direction of a cheiropterygium."
- "[…]whether the tetrapod limb be derived from an ichthyopterygium like that of the shark, or an archipterygium like that of Ceratodus, or a reduced archipterygium like that of Eusthenopteron[…]"
- "The various adaptations of the ichthyopterygium to locomotion have little bearing on the question of homology."
Etymology
From New Latin ichthyopterygium, from Ancient Greek ἰχθύς (ikhthús, “fish”) + πτερύγιον (pterúgion, “fin”). By surface analysis, ichthyo- + pterygium.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: ichthyopterygium, ἰχθύς