tellurion
Plural: tellurions
Noun
- An instrument used to show how the rotation of the Earth on its axis and its orbit around the Sun cause day and night and the seasons.
Origin / Etymology
From Latin tellūs (“earth, ground; the globe, planet Earth; country, land”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *telh₂- (“ground, bottom”) + -ion (a Latinate suffix used in place of -ian (suffix meaning ‘one from, belonging to, relating to, or like’)), possibly coined by Benjamin Martin (baptized 1705; died 1782), an English lecturer, lexicographer, and maker of scientific instruments: see the quotation.
Scrabble Score: 9
tellurion: valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordtellurion: not valid in Scrabble (MW) Merriam-Webster Dictionary
tellurion: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 0
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