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megalodon

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.12 in modern English

Syllables
mega-lodon
IPA
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A species of extinct shark that lived during the Miocene and Pliocene epochs (†Otodus megalodon).

Example Sentences

Etymology

Learned borrowing from taxonomic name megalodon, from Ancient Greek μεγάλος (megálos, “big”) + ὀδών (odṓn, “tooth”). By surface analysis, megalo- + -odon.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

megalodons (plural)

Synonyms

megatooth

Questions

What does megalodon mean?
A species of extinct shark that lived during the Miocene and Pliocene epochs (†Otodus megalodon).
Where does megalodon come from?
It is traced to Ancient Greek.

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