Definitions for isthmuses

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isthmuses isth·mus

Spelling: [is-muh s]

IPA: /ˈɪs məs/

Isthmuses is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 279 anagrams from letters in isthmuses (ehimssstu).

Definitions for isthmuses

noun

1. a narrow strip of land, bordered on both sides by water, connecting two larger bodies of land.
2. Anatomy, Zoology. a connecting, usually narrow, part, organ, or passage, especially when joining structures or cavities larger than itself.
3. Ichthyology. the narrow fleshy area between the sides of the lower jaw of a fish.

Origin of isthmuses

1545-55; Latin Greek isthmós neck (of land)

Examples for isthmuses

They landed on the mainland, and, crossing the isthmus, made for Panama.

This part, like an isthmus, was called "Heaven's Floating Bridge."

Is it really possible that we were once so wrapped around that isthmus?

On the isthmus of Panama, Charles was persuaded to leave his master.

I returned stoutly; for I had, of course, sunk the isthmus of Panama beneath the sea.

I found that the program for the day included a trip to Colon on the isthmus railroad.

They were on a peninsula, as it were, while the soldiers were securing the isthmus.

We can get all the women we want, and of our own kind without crossing the isthmus.

The only thing it rhymes with is isthmus, and that but loosely.

In fact, the islands are not unlike the isthmus of Panama in this regard.