vuln
/vʌln/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.61 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The shield depicts a pelican vulning herself."
- "Of many other literary references to the pelican briefest mention can be now made . The variant relations of the piety of the bird are very interesting : according to one set of legends , it is to feed its young that the pelican vulns[…]"
- "To left a gold pelican in nest vulns itself to draw blood for its young . 0287.0 pen : A naked arm and hand from clouds on left holding an iron stilus ( pen ) pointing to an inscription : ' I Petri Cap . 2 Ve ."
- "The pelican was my high school's mascot, taken from the crest of our school's founding family. The pelican is a Christ symbol, I had been told, because according to legend it vulns itself to feed its young. I saw a second pelican[…]"
- "... no to rent rise " posters'.40 Other campaign posters featured a giant pelican - the symbol of Corpus Christi - feasting on a group of tiny human beings , with the tag line : ' The vampire pelican vulns its young to feed itself."
Etymology
Irregularly derived from Latin vulnerāre.