Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

nautiform

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: nau-ti-form
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Shaped like the hull of a ship.

Example Sentences

"On the island of the Tiber towered the mast-like obelisk of the huge nautiform temple of Aesculapius, whose serpent there deposited, had stayed the plague in the fifth century of Rome."
"[…] nautiform, 15 cm long; male flowers small, mixing with bristle-shaped bractlets. Petals 3, similarly as calyx, smaller. Stamens 3, uniting to form a cylindrical structure; anthers basifixed, linear, 2-celled[…]"
"[…] inner whorl nautiform, ca. 2.2 mm; synandrium with 9 anthers. Female flowers not seen. Infructescences borne on old stems, stout, carpophores stout, […]"

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ναυτικός (nautikós) + -iform.

Origin

Source language: Ancient Greek

Word Breakdown

Root: ναυτικός
Suffix: iform

Inflected Forms

more nautiform (comparative) most nautiform (superlative)

Questions

What does nautiform mean?: Shaped like the hull of a ship.
Where does nautiform come from?: It is traced to Ancient Greek.

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