Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

xenodontine

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: xen-odon-tine
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Belonging to a group of colubrid snakes with unusual teeth.

noun

Any snake of the subfamily Xenodontinae

Example Sentences

"We characterized the skull morphology of 19 species of xenodontine snakes using geometric morphometric techniques, and used phylogenetic comparative methods to test the association between diet and skull morphology."

Etymology

From xeno- + -odont + -ine.

Inflected Forms

xenodontines (plural)

Questions

What does xenodontine mean?: Belonging to a group of colubrid snakes with unusual teeth.
Where does xenodontine come from?: From xeno- + -odont + -ine.

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