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ANKYLOSAURID
Definition of ANKYLOSAURID
noun
Any member of the family Ankylosauridae, ankylosaurians with clublike tails.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From taxonomic name Ankylosauridae, from Ankylosaurus + New Latin -idae (“-id, related to”), from Ancient Greek -ίδης (-ídēs, “-son, son of”). Equivalent to ankylosaur + -id.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Ancient Greek
- Latin
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
12.3%
of traced words share this origin (10,575)
branch · 12.3% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ANKYLOSAURID in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 171, 7 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 171, 7 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ANKYLOSAURID starts with A and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read AADIKLNORSUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start ANKYLOSA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ANKYLOSAURID?
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