Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

xenarthran

/zəˈnɑɹθɹən/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: xe-narthran
IPA: /zəˈnɑɹθɹən/

20

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any mammal of the superorder Xenarthra, of the Americas; an anteater, armadillo or sloth.

Example Sentences

"Elephant-shrews, xenarthrans, hystricognathous rodents, cetaceans, some pinnipeds, and primates depart sharply from this trend, however."
"Xenarthrans appear to have originated in South America and to have undergone their major adaptive radiation there (Reig 1981)."
"Only four xenarthran families are extant today, providing little indication of the past richness of the order."
"2010, Ana Maria Jansen, André Luiz Rodrigues Roque, 11: Domestic and Wild Mammalian Reservoirs, Jenny Telleria, Michel Tibayrenc, American Trypanosomiasis: Chagas Disease: One Hundred Years of Research, page 249, Marsupials and xenarthrans, which represented the autochthonous mammalian fauna, were T. cruzi’s first hosts."

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ξένος (xénos, “strange”) + ἄρθρον (árthron, “joint”).

Inflected Forms

xenarthrans (plural)

Derived Forms

xenarthrous

Questions

How do you pronounce xenarthran?: The recorded pronunciation is /zəˈnɑɹθɹən/.
What does xenarthran mean?: Any mammal of the superorder Xenarthra, of the Americas; an anteater, armadillo or sloth.
Where does xenarthran come from?: From Ancient Greek ξένος (xénos, “strange”) + ἄρθρον (árthron, “joint”).

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