Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pseudopore

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: pseu-do-pore
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A structure that resembles a pore but is not a true pore.

Example Sentences

"Autozooids with cryptocystidean frontal shield, perforated by a highly variable number of small pseudopores, from very numerous to extremely reduced or almost absent, plus a row of peripheral areolar pores. […] Ovicell hyperstomial, globular but distinctly flattened frontally, about as wide as long, with the secondary calcification of the distal zooid covering the entire lateral ooecium, forming a raised serrated rim around the central, flattened exposed ectooecium which is perforated by numerous pseudopores of variable shape and comparatively small size."

Etymology

From pseudo- + pore.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: pseudo-

Inflected Forms

pseudopores (plural)

Questions

What does pseudopore mean?: A structure that resembles a pore but is not a true pore.
Where does pseudopore come from?: From pseudo- + pore.

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