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nursehound

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
nurse-hound
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Scyliorhinus stellaris, a species of catshark.

Etymology

From nurse + hound.

Inflected Forms

nursehounds (plural)

Synonyms

large-spotted dogfish greater spotted dogfish bull huss

Questions

What does nursehound mean?
Scyliorhinus stellaris, a species of catshark.
Where does nursehound come from?
From nurse + hound.

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