Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

mesoeucrocodylian

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: mesoeu-crocodylian
IPA

27

Scrabble Score

17

Letters

2

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of a group of mostly extinct crocodylomorphs of the clade Mesoeucrocodylia.

Example Sentences

"The new species possesses a combination of primitive and derived features that helps to fill wide morphological and temporal gaps in early mesoeucrocodylian history."
"For mesoeucrocodylians known on the basis of incomplete skeletal remains, body size is generally estimated from skull length-total length relationships in extant crocodylians (Webb and Messel, 1978; Woodward el al., 1995; Sereno et al., 2001)."
"The mesoeucrocodylians were known previously as the Mesosuchia."

Etymology

Mesoeucrocodylia + -an

Word Breakdown

Suffix: an

Inflected Forms

mesoeucrocodylians (plural)

Questions

What does mesoeucrocodylian mean?: Any of a group of mostly extinct crocodylomorphs of the clade Mesoeucrocodylia.
Where does mesoeucrocodylian come from?: Mesoeucrocodylia + -an

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