Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

plethodontid

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: plethod-on-tid
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of the Plethodontidae, a family of lungless salamanders.

Example Sentences

"The family of salamanders known as plethodontids are unusual in many ways."
"In Mark Twain National Forest in Missouri, for example, they are—if you count them by weight—the dominant form of life, with 1400 tonnes of plethodontids lurking in the leaf litter and wetlands of its 600,000 hectares."

Etymology

From scientific Latin Plethodontidae (family name), from Plethodon (genus name), from Ancient Greek πλῆθος (plêthos, “great number”) + ὀδούς (odoús, “tooth”).

Origin

Source language: Ancient Greek

Word Breakdown

Root: πλῆθος

Inflected Forms

plethodontids (plural)

Questions

What does plethodontid mean?: Any of the Plethodontidae, a family of lungless salamanders.
Where does plethodontid come from?: It is traced to Ancient Greek.

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