Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

inquilinous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: in-quili-nous
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

That lives in the dwelling place of another species

Example Sentences

"Sponges influence macrofaunal community composition by providing habitat for inquilines (e.g., among the inquilinous amphipods, a diversity of sebids, stenothoids, thaumatelsonids, colomastigids and leucothoids were found with the sponges)."

Frequently Paired Words

inquiline inquilinism

Questions

What does inquilinous mean?: That lives in the dwelling place of another species

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