zygomorphic
adjective
zygomorphic is an adjective meaning “Having bilateral symmetry” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled Z-Y-G-O-M-O-R-P-H-I-C, and it appears about once in every 54 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does zygomorphic mean?
adjective
- 1
Having bilateral symmetry.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce zygomorphic?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-zygomorphic.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
How common is zygomorphic?
Zygomorphic appears about once in every 54 million words in written English, the 228,409th 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).
Zygomorphic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense biology: having bilateral symmetry:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | zygomorphe |
| German | zygomorph |
| Spanish | zigomorfo |
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 zygomorphic come from?
From zygo- + -morphic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).