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mesoplastron

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
meso-plas-tron
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

either of a pair of transverse hexagonal bones in a turtle that lie between the hyoplastral and hypoplastral bones

Etymology

Borrowed in 1888 from French mésoplastron, ultimately from German Mesoplastron, coined by Karl Alfred von Zittel in 1877 as meso- + plastron. Superseded the earlier mesosternum, a nominalised form of the adjective mesosternal, coined by Richard Owen in 1853. The prefix is from Ancient Greek μέσος (mésos, “middle”), in reference to its position between the hyoplastron and the hypoplastron.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

mesoplastra (plural)

Derived Forms

mesoplastral

Questions

What does mesoplastron mean?
either of a pair of transverse hexagonal bones in a turtle that lie between the hyoplastral and hypoplastral bones
Where does mesoplastron come from?
It is traced to French.

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