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xanthophyte

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
xan-tho-phyte
IPA
29
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any yellow-green alga (of the class Xanthophyceae).

Etymology

From xantho- (“golden”) + -phyte (“plant”).

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

xanthophytes (plural)

Questions

What does xanthophyte mean?
Any yellow-green alga (of the class Xanthophyceae).
Where does xanthophyte come from?
From xantho- (“golden”) + -phyte (“plant”).

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