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multituberculate

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
mul-ti-tu-ber-cu-late
IPA
22
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
6
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Having molars with multiple rows of cusps.

noun

Any of a small group of rodent-like mammals, of the order †Multituberculata, from the Cretaceous and Paleocene periods.

Etymology

From multi- + tuberculate.

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

multituberculates (plural)

Synonyms

multi

Questions

What does multituberculate mean?
Having molars with multiple rows of cusps.
Where does multituberculate come from?
From multi- + tuberculate.

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