neoglacial
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Describing any of several relatively recent periods (during the Holocene) of increased glaciation
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *nu Proto-Indo-European *néwos Proto-Hellenic *néwos Ancient Greek νέος (néos) Ancient Greek νεο- (neo-)der. English neo- English glacial English neoglacial From neo- + glacial.