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stellion

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
stel-lion
IPA
8
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A lizard (Laudakia stellio or Stellagama stellio). It is olive-green with small stellate spots, commonly found in the rocky areas around the Mediterranean.

Etymology

From Latin stellio (“a newt with starlike spots on its back”), from stella (“star”).

Inflected Forms

stellions (plural)

Synonyms

starred agama roughtail rock agama hardim hardun star lizard

Rhymes With

rebellion machiavellian hellion tabellion circumcellion tetraskelion

Questions

What does stellion mean?
A lizard (Laudakia stellio or Stellagama stellio). It is olive-green with small stellate spots, commonly found in the rocky areas around the Mediterranean.
Where does stellion come from?
From Latin stellio (“a newt with starlike spots on its back”), from stella (“star”).

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