Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

zygopterid

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: zy-gopterid
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A member of the Zygopterideae, an extinct family of ferns within order Osmundales having three-dimensional fronds with pinnae in four ranks and a rachis that is radially symmetrical in cross section.

Example Sentences

"As in the zygopterids, the fronds of the coenopterids were […]"
"Phillips and Galtier (2005) also suggested that the ancestral form of the zygopterids was arborescent, based on the fact that the earliest forms (clepsydroid types) are arborescent."

Inflected Forms

zygopterids (plural)

Questions

What does zygopterid mean?: A member of the Zygopterideae, an extinct family of ferns within order Osmundales having three-dimensional fronds with pinnae in four ranks and a rachis that is radially symmetrical in cross section.

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