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temporin

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
tem-po-rin
IPA
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of a family of peptides isolated originally from the skin secretion of the European red frog, Rana temporaria.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

A tarry secretion from the temporal ducts of a bull elephant during musth.

Uncountable

Etymology

From Latin temporaria + English -in.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

temporins (plural)

Questions

What does temporin mean?
Any of a family of peptides isolated originally from the skin secretion of the European red frog, Rana temporaria.
Where does temporin come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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