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mamushi

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
ma-mushi
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A species of pit viper, Gloydius blomhoffii

Etymology

From Japanese 蝮(まむし) (mamushi).

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

mamushis (plural)

Synonyms

Japanese mamushi Japanese moccasin Japanese pit viper Qichun snake

Questions

What does mamushi mean?
A species of pit viper, Gloydius blomhoffii
Where does mamushi come from?
It is traced to Japanese.

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