ranine
/ˈɹeɪˌnaɪn/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of, relating to, or resembling a frog.
adj
Relating to, or designating, a swelling under the tongue; also, relating to the region where the swelling occurs, especially to branches of the lingual artery and lingual vein.
Example Sentences
- "In the Cenozoic, extensive radiation took place in this family in Africa among the endemic phrynobatrachines, arthroleptines, hemisines, and the more wide-ranging ranines."
- "Two major invasions into Eurasia are postulated: the first involving the Raninae, which gave rise to (a) those ranines that eventually dispersed to the New World and (b) the Platymantinae of Southeast Asia and Australasia, and the second involving the Rhacophorinae."
- "The ranids consisted of ranines and the stock that gave rise to the mantellines."
- "The ranines occupy fertilization environments within bodies of water (aquatic) and the African rhacophorids in a foam nest on a tree branch (terrestrial)."
- "The tongue is largely supplied by blood vessels, its arteries being branches of the ranine and labial, and its veins emptying into the great linguals which proceed to the external jugular; […]"
- "The lingual, the ranine, and the lower part of the facial vein, together with the common facial and the anterior and posterior divisions of the temporo-maxillary vein, were full of pus, the external jugular having been removed at the operation."
Etymology
From Latin rānīnus, from rāna (“frog”) + -īnus (“of or pertaining to”).
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: rānīnus