testaceous
/tɛˈsteɪʃəs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having a shell, especially one which is not articulated.
Example Sentences
- "[T]hey were burnt, or only baked in Oven or Sunne: According to the ancient way, in many bricks, tiles, pots, and testaceous works […]"
- "It has a very large head, in proportion to its body, all covered with a shell, like other testaceous Animals […]"
- "Tyrian garbs, / Neptunian Albion's high teſtaceous food [i.e., oysters], / And flavour'd Chian wines with incenſe fum'd / To ſlake Patrician thirſt: for theſe, their rights / In the vile ſtreets they proſtitute to ſale; / Their ancient rights, their dignities, their laws, / Their native glorious freedom."
- "The Ship-VVorm of Jamaica. This inſect is extremely deſtructive to all the ſhips that anchor for any time in the harbours of Jamaica, or in any other part vvithin the tropics: They cut vvith great facility through the planks, and burrovv a conſiderable vvay in the ſubſtance of them, incruſtating the ſides of all their holes vvith a ſmooth teſtaceous ſubſtance[…]."
- "The mollusca, and testaceous animals in particular, have been considered to be of potency in an amatory sense."
Etymology
From Latin testāceus.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: testāceus
Usage
Inflected Forms
more testaceous (comparative)
most testaceous (superlative)