percesocine
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Relating to, or resembling, fish of suborder Percesoces, including gray mullets, barracudas, and silversides.
Example Sentences
- "It is possible that it may have been an early offshoot from a Percesocine or Acanthopterygian stock, and cognate with the Hemibranchii; but too little is known of its anatomy to warrant an authoritative opinion."
- "Regan (1913) classified the percesocine fishes as two suborders of his order Percomorphi."
- "The placement and relationships of the atherinoid (sometimes called percesocine) fishes are still in dispute."
Etymology
Percesoces + -ine
Word Breakdown
- Suffix: ine