Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

petricolous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: pet-ri-colous
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Rock-dwelling; living among or on rocks.

Example Sentences

"Alpine plants that cannot establish themselves in earthy gorges must adapt to a petricolous habit in cracks in rocks."
"[…] in the mighty Andes, this petricolous people who reared in very truth a culture of the stone[…]"

Etymology

From Latin petra (“a rock”) + colō (“to inhabit”).

Inflected Forms

more petricolous (comparative) most petricolous (superlative)

Questions

What does petricolous mean?: Rock-dwelling; living among or on rocks.
Where does petricolous come from?: From Latin petra (“a rock”) + colō (“to inhabit”).

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