Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

opisthocomid

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: opistho-co-mid
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any bird of the family Opisthocomidae, which comprises the hoazin and extinct relatives.

Example Sentences

"Miller (1953) described an avian cranium from the Miocene of Colombia as an opisthocomid, Hoazinoides magdalenae."
"All other birds thought to be primitive [e.g. cuculiforms, opisthocomids, coraciiforms, musophagids, gruiforms (including the Cariarmidae), etc.] have definitive and often quite small feather tracts."
"Some of the other placements are so startling that Livezey and Zusi are unconvinced by their own results (e.g., opisthocomids [Hoatzin], steatornithids [Oilbirds] phoenicopterids [flamingos], and many of the smaller forest birds)."

Inflected Forms

opisthocomids (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

opisthocomine

Questions

What does opisthocomid mean?: Any bird of the family Opisthocomidae, which comprises the hoazin and extinct relatives.

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