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CORBICULA
Definition of CORBICULA
noun
A bee's pollen basket; in honeybees and close relatives, the corbiculae are located on the outer (lateral) surface of the hind tibia.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
A learned borrowing from Latin corbicula, diminutive of corbis, a basket. Doublet of corbeil.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
32.9%
of traced words share this origin (9,038)
branch · 32.9% 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.
CORBICULA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 137, 4 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
Built from these letters
CORBICULA starts with C and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read ABCCILORU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. C appears more than once.
Words that start CORBIC
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CORBICULA?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 137 - and most players walked straight past it.
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