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orycterope

orycterope is the alternative form of oryctere.

Meaning of oryctere

Noun

oryctere (plural orycteres)

  1. (archaic) The aardvark.

Forms of orycterope

pluralorycteropes

Origin of orycterope

From New Latin oryctēropūs, from Ancient Greek ὀρυκτήρ (oruktḗr, “miner”) + πούς (poús, “foot”).

Questions about orycterope

What is orycterope the alternative form of?
Orycterope is the alternative form of oryctere.

Words near orycterope in the dictionary

  1. orxatas
  2. oryall
  3. oryalls
  4. oryctere
  5. orycteres
  6. orycterope
  7. orycteropes
  8. orycteropodid
  9. orycteropodids
  10. orycteropodoid
  11. oryctics

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Adapted from Wiktionary: orycterope (page history and authors); oryctere (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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