Definitions for lyttas

lyttas lyt·ta

Spelling: [lit-uh]
IPA: /ˈlɪt ə/

Lyttas is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 70 anagrams from letters in lyttas (alstty).

Definitions for lyttas

noun

  1. a long, worm-shaped cartilage in the tongue of the dog and other carnivorous animals.

Origin of lyttas

1595-1605; New Latin Greek lýtta, Attic form of lýssa rage, rabies; so named because the cartilage was thought to be a parasite causing rabies

Examples for lyttas

We come now to the tribe of blistering beetles, of which the best known is the Cantharides (Cantharis or lytta).

Species of lytta abound, but no use is made of them, the Shoans having no real medicine prepared from the animal kingdom.

Unwormed, un-wurmd′, adj. not wormed, not having had the worm or lytta under the tongue cut out—of a dog.

When the lytta, alias blister beetle, arrives, prepare to give a warm welcome to him and all of his kind.

Word Value for lyttas
Scrable

8

Words with friends

8

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