notoryctid
/ˌnoʊ.toʊˈɹɪk.tɪd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A marsupial mole, of the family Notoryctidae.
Example Sentences
- "While specialisation of the musculo-skeletal system have been so widespread as to obscure almost any phylogenetically relevant patterns, there is evidence to support a sister group relationship of notoryctids and peramelid bandicoots (Peramelidae)."
- "Modern notoryctids are confined to deserts in Australia and exhibit numerous anatomical specializations that appear exceptionally well suited to burrowing through desert sands."
- "For the latter, we estimate that lens/cornea genes were inactivated ~17.8 million years ago (MYA) when stem notoryctids were burrowing in the soft soils of Australian rainforests. […] In contrast, if the eyes of N. typhlops degenerated rapidly and recently in response to increasingly sandy soil, then there may have been less time for the accumulation of inactivating mutations in notoryctid eye-specific genes than in chrysochlorid eye-specific genes."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌnoʊ.toʊˈɹɪk.tɪd/