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atsugari

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
at-sug-ari
IPA
9
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A Drosophila phenotype that shows a preference for unusually low temperatures.

Uncountable

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 暑がり (atsugari, “one who dislikes hot temperature”), from 暑い (atsui, “hot”) + (verb-)がり (gari, “one who dislikes something”, literally “one often shows expression of something”).

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Questions

What does atsugari mean?
A Drosophila phenotype that shows a preference for unusually low temperatures.
Where does atsugari come from?
It is traced to Japanese.

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