mesonephros
noun
mesonephros is a noun meaning “The second of the three excretory organs of the developing embryo; the Wolffian body” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-E-S-O-N-E-P-H-R-O-S, and it appears about once in every 95 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of mesonephros is mesonephroi or mesonephroses.
What does mesonephros mean?
noun
- 1
The second of the three excretory organs of the developing embryo; the Wolffian body.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of mesonephros
- mesonephroi plural
- mesonephroses plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is mesonephros?
Mesonephros appears about once in every 95 million words in written English, the 313,259th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Mesonephros in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense excretory organ of the embryo:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | mesonefros |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does mesonephros come from?
From meso- + nephros.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).