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echemes

echemes is the plural of echeme.

Meaning of echeme

Noun

echeme (plural echemes)

  1. A unit of sound produced by insects that can be broken down into multiple physically more basic sound units (syllables).
    • This new term, then, is echeme, defined as: a first-order assemblage of syllables.[1976, W. B. Broughton, “Proposal for a new term ‘echeme’ to replace ‘chirp’ in animal acoustics”, in Physiological Entomology, volume 1, number 2, →DOI, pages 103–106

Questions about echemes

What is echemes the plural of?
Echemes is the plural of echeme.

Words near echemes in the dictionary

  1. echelonment
  2. echelonments
  3. echelons
  4. Echeloot
  5. echeme
  6. echemes
  7. echeneid
  8. echeneidid
  9. echeneidids
  10. echeneids
  11. Echeng

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