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musselcracker

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
mus-sel-crack-er
IPA
23
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any member of two species of marine ray-finned fish, found in South African waters, belonging to the family Sparidae:

noun

Any member of two species of marine ray-finned fish, found in South African waters, belonging to the family Sparidae:

Etymology

From mussel + cracker

Inflected Forms

musselcrackers (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

biskop

Synonyms

musselcrusher mussel-crusher black musselcracker poenskop seabream black biskop musselcracker seabream white musselcracker white biskop silver steenbras biskop

Questions

What does musselcracker mean?
Any member of two species of marine ray-finned fish, found in South African waters, belonging to the family Sparidae:
Where does musselcracker come from?
From mussel + cracker

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