Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

nasutiform

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: na-su-ti-form
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Having a nasus.

Example Sentences

"The large subfamily Nasutitermitinae includes many species which have soldiers with a pear-shaped, nasutiform head and several species build nests of carton."

Etymology

From nasute (“a kind of termite with a nasus”) + -iform.

Questions

What does nasutiform mean?: Having a nasus.
Where does nasutiform come from?: From nasute (“a kind of termite with a nasus”) + -iform.

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