kyphosid
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The kyphosids are today one of the most primitive percosid families."
- "A few apogonids are similarly shaped and pigmented, but none are as robust as kyphosids, and all have a prominent gas bladder and a divided dorsal fin with fewer elements. Heavily pigmented perciform larvae such as Iatids and toxotids have different skin meristics and smaller head spines than kyphosids."
- "Siganids and kyphosids are less speciose than scarines and acanthurids, and are more conservative in their feeding habitats (Choat 1991, Choat et al 2002)."
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κυφός (kuphós) + + -id.