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mesethmoid

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
meseth-moid
IPA
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A bony cartilage, in the centre of the ethmoid part of the skull, that makes up most of the nasal septum.

Etymology

From meso- + ethmoid.

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

mesethmoids (plural)

Synonyms

mesethmoid bone

Rhymes With

ethmoid ectethmoid parethmoid sphenethmoid sphenoethmoid

Questions

What does mesethmoid mean?
A bony cartilage, in the centre of the ethmoid part of the skull, that makes up most of the nasal septum.
Where does mesethmoid come from?
From meso- + ethmoid.

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