acnestis

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments (9)  · 
“
Curious word of the day: acnestis - that part of an animal's skin that it cannot reach to scratch.

View all »
Definitions (1)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (1)

  1. That part of the spine in quadrupeds which extends from between the shoulder-blades to the loins, and which the animal cannot reach to scratch.

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

Examples (2)

  • In what has to be the longest post-election season in living memory, the last five months have felt like an acnestis upon our collective soul; like that little patch of skin on our backs that we just can't reach to scratch ourselves.
  • Curious word of the day: acnestis - that part of an animal's skin that it cannot reach to scratch. —  Progressive Bloggers
 

Tags

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 136 times.

1 person has marked this word as a favorite.

stop updating
On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Etymologies (1)

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (1)

  1. New Latin, from Greek ἂκυηστις, the spine or backbone of quadrupeds, from ἀ- privative + κνηστός, scratched, from κνάειν, scratch, scrape.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »

If you'd like to prod us on getting a pronunciation for this word, sign in (or sign up) and let us know.

Charts

We are still working on calculating this word's frequency.

Recently looked up

Stats · crap · riveted · delicti · urges

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

eu oi oìa u ou e u oìa · the octopi are dry · Kansas City · spell it rite · put it in your pocket