Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

maceral

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
mac-er-al
IPA
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A component of coal or oil shale.

Example Sentences

Etymology

From Latin mācerō (“macerate”) + -al, after mineral. Coined by British birth control campaigner and paleontologist Marie Stopes in 1935.

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

macerals (plural)

Questions

What does maceral mean?
A component of coal or oil shale.
Where does maceral come from?
From Latin mācerō (“macerate”) + -al, after mineral. Coined by British birth control campaigner and paleontologist Marie Stopes in 1935.

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