phocomelus

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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noun

Dated; Uncountable

noun

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"He did not say that his wife's brother back on Earth was a phocomelus; he had been born without arms and made use of superb artificial ones designed for him by a Canadian firm which specialized in such equipment."

See phocomelia.

phocomeli (plural)

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