nerineoidean
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any of the superfamily †Nerineoidea of extinct sea snails.
Example Sentences
- "The Late Mesozoic (Late Jurassic to Late Cretaceous) could represent a peak in planktic productivity as indicated by the evolution of very large deposit-feeding nerineoidean gastropods which reached lengths of 50 cm beginning in the Late Jurassic [70], and by a size maximum in suspension-feeding bivalves in the Late Cretaceous (Table 1) and of suspension-feeding gastropods (Gigantocapulus schmitti, length 400mm) [71, 72]."
Etymology
†Nerineoidea + -an
Word Breakdown
- Suffix: an