Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

white cloud mountain minnow

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.61 in modern English

Syllables: white -cloud -moun-tain min-now
IPA

40

Scrabble Score

24

Letters

5

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A popular aquarium fish, Tanichthys albonubes.

Etymology

After the White Cloud Mountain in Canton, China. The Latin name is in honour of Tan, a boy scout who first discovered the minnows in the 1950s and brought them to the attention of ichthyologist Lin Shu Yen.

Inflected Forms

White Cloud Mountain minnows (plural)

Questions

What does white cloud mountain minnow mean?: A popular aquarium fish, Tanichthys albonubes.
Where does white cloud mountain minnow come from?: After the White Cloud Mountain in Canton, China. The Latin name is in honour of Tan, a boy scout who first discovered the minnows in the 1950s and brought them to the attention of ichthyologist Lin Shu Yen.

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