xenopid
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any of the genus Xenopus of clawed frogs.
Example Sentences
- "Concerning this latter point, however, it should be recalled that the xenopid larvae are equally microphagous and yet their manicotto structure is essentially of the ranid type."
- "On the tails of some tadpoles the melanophores which were scattered on the surface of the body are visible, in the same way as in the tadpoles of the xenopids."
Etymology
From Xenopus + -id.
Word Breakdown
- Suffix: id