Etymology

microdrile

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Today it means: Any relatively small, generally aquatic, oligochaete, a member of a sometimes used size-based division of the class Oligochaeta. Full definition →

Ancient Greek μικρός
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromμικρός“small”
  2. English todaymicrodrile

From Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós, “small”) + δρῖλος (drîlos, “worm”).

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekμικρός all →

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