Definitions for isthmus

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isthmus isth·mus

Spelling: [is-muh s]

IPA: /ˈɪs məs/

Isthmus is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 141 anagrams from letters in isthmus (himsstu).

Definitions for isthmus

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 isthmus

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

Examples for isthmus

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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