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paleaceous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
palea-ceous
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

chaffy; resembling or consisting of paleae, or chaff

Archaic

Example Sentences

Etymology

From Latin palea (“chaff”) + -aceous.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

more paleaceous (comparative) most paleaceous (superlative)

Derived Forms

epaleaceous paleaceously

Questions

What does paleaceous mean?
chaffy; resembling or consisting of paleae, or chaff
Where does paleaceous come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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