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stramenopile

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
stra-menopile
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A heterokont of the clade (sometimes a superphylum) Stramenopiles.

Etymology

Coined in 1989 by David J. Patterson, Latin stramen (“straw”) + pilus (“hair”), referring to an anterior flagellum with short hairlike extensions that forms during the life cycle of most members of the lineage.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

stramenopiles (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

stramenopilic

Questions

What does stramenopile mean?
A heterokont of the clade (sometimes a superphylum) Stramenopiles.
Where does stramenopile come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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