limule
French, noun/li.myl/
limule is spelled L-I-M-U-L-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 50 million words in written French, the 223,977th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Limule is a French feminine noun meaning “horseshoe crab” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Arthropode de la famille des Limulidae, représentée par trois genres et quatre espèces (dont trois d’Asie)”.
What does limule mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininehorseshoe crab
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Arthropode de la famille des Limulidae, représentée par trois genres et quatre espèces (dont trois d’Asie).
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of limule
- limules plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce limule?
- /li.myl/
- \li.myl\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is limule in French?
limule appears about once in every 50 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).