rangiferine
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Relating to, or resembling, the reindeer or caribou.
Example Sentences
- "Prior to the Glacial Ages there developed out of a generalized rangiferine ancestor in possession of the whole of boreal Eurasia and North America a number of local "reindeers", and "caribous", of which one held generally Europe (Barren Ground Reindeer), the other (Woodland Reindeer) generally Siberia."
- "Our findings in this preliminary investigation of the pathologic potential of this rangiferine species of Sarcocystis must be qualified as follows."
- "There is debate asto whether rangiferine brucellosis spread to North America across the Bering Sea land bridge duringthelast iceage,orifit was introduced in imported Russian reindeer around 1900."
Etymology
From translingual Rangifer and Latin rangifer + -ine.
Word Breakdown
- Root: Rangifer