thermohaline
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.55 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
of, or relating to a combination of temperature and salinity
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer- Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰermos Proto-Hellenic *kʷʰermós Ancient Greek θερμός (thermós)der. English thermo- English haline English thermohaline From thermo- + haline.