Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

remigrant

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: rem-i-grant
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A migrant who returns to their former country.

noun

An insect that migrates back to a previous host.

Example Sentences

"In host-alternating aphids the remigrants, which give birth to the mating females, are the first to arrive on the primary host […]"

Etymology

From re- + migrant.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: re

Inflected Forms

remigrants (plural)

Questions

What does remigrant mean?: A migrant who returns to their former country.
Where does remigrant come from?: From re- + migrant.

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