Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pinacocyte

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: pina-co-cyte
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of a group of flattened polygonal cells that together make up the pinacoderm in the dermal epithelium of sponges.

Example Sentences

"Minchin (1896, 1898, 1908) also concluded that the pinacocytes could leave the dermal epithelium and become calcoblasts in both larva and adult sponge."
"As you can see in Fig 27.7, sponges have only three types of cells in their bodies: pinacocytes (epithelial cells), choanocytes (collar cells) and amoebocytes (amoeboid cells)."
"Despite this, in some studies the origin of new pinacocytes is not clear or is disputed (Wilson and Penney, 1930; Borojevic and Lévi, 1965)."

Etymology

From pinaco(derm) + -cyte.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: cyte

Inflected Forms

pinacocytes (plural)

Derived Forms

basopinacocyte endopinacocyte exopinacocyte pinacocytic

Frequently Paired Words

amoebocyte choanocyte

Questions

What does pinacocyte mean?: Any of a group of flattened polygonal cells that together make up the pinacoderm in the dermal epithelium of sponges.
Where does pinacocyte come from?: From pinaco(derm) + -cyte.

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