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metapterygoid

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
metaptery-goid
IPA
22
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
2
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A bone, in the skull of teleostean fish, that lies behind the pterygoid

Etymology

From meta- + pterygoid.

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

metapterygoids (plural)

Rhymes With

pterygoid basipterygoid ectopterygoid palatopterygoid epipterygoid entopterygoid mesopterygoid

Questions

What does metapterygoid mean?
A bone, in the skull of teleostean fish, that lies behind the pterygoid
Where does metapterygoid come from?
From meta- + pterygoid.

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