veliger
noun
veliger is a noun meaning “The planktonic larva of many kinds of marine and freshwater gastropod molluscs, as well as most bivalve molluscs” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-E-L-I-G-E-R, and it appears about once in every 60 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of veliger is veligers.
What does veliger mean?
noun
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The planktonic larva of many kinds of marine and freshwater gastropod molluscs, as well as most bivalve molluscs.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of veliger
- veligers plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is veliger?
Veliger appears about once in every 60 million words in written English, the 243,301st 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).
Where does veliger come from?
Borrowed from Latin vēliger (“sail-bearing”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).