Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pentastome

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: pen-tas-tome
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any tongue worm of the subclass Pentastomida

Example Sentences

"Here, we measured CO 2 production (a surrogate for metabolism) in Mediterranean geckos (Hemidactylus turcicus) infected with a lung parasite, the pentastome Raillietiella indica, under two physiological conditions: rested and recently active."

Inflected Forms

pentastomes (plural)

Questions

What does pentastome mean?: Any tongue worm of the subclass Pentastomida

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