Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

paroccipital

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: paroc-cip-i-tal
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Situated near or beside the occipital condyle or the occipital bone; paramastoid; applied especially to a process of the skull in some animals.

noun

Alternative form of paraoccipital.

Example Sentences

"paroccipital process"
"paroccipital region"
"Only in the Cotylosauria primitively do the paroccipitals exist as distinct bones in the adult, articulating with the exoccipitals, supraoccipital, proötics, stapes, tabulars, and quadrates. On the inner side they help form, with the supraoccipital and proötics, the otic capsule. In the Theromorpha, so far as known, the paroccipitals are fused with the supraoccipital, suturally or loosely articulated with the exoccipitals."

Etymology

From para- + occipital.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: para

Inflected Forms

paroccipitals (plural)

Derived Forms

pterygoparoccipital

Phrases

paroccipital process

Questions

What does paroccipital mean?: Situated near or beside the occipital condyle or the occipital bone; paramastoid; applied especially to a process of the skull in some animals.
Where does paroccipital come from?: From para- + occipital.

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