schedelloos

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Dutch[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From schedel +‎ -loos.

The sense “cephalochordate” comes from the taxon Acrania.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈsxeː.dəlˌloːs/
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  • Hyphenation: sche‧del‧loos

Adjective[edit]

schedelloos (comparative schedellooser, superlative meest schedelloos or schedelloost)

  1. skull-less [from 19th c.]
  2. cephalochordate, any member of the subphylum Cephalochordata [from 1930s]

Inflection[edit]

Declension of schedelloos
uninflected schedelloos
inflected schedelloze
comparative
positive
predicative/adverbial schedelloos
indefinite m./f. sing. schedelloze
n. sing. schedelloos
plural schedelloze
definite schedelloze
partitive schedelloos

Derived terms[edit]