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Yes. The word lagena is a Scrabble US word. The word lagena is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word lagena is a Scrabble UK word and has 7 points:

L1A1G2E1N1A1

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6-letter words (4 found)

ALNAGE,ANLAGE,GALENA,LAGENA,

5-letter words (9 found)

ALANE,ALANG,ALGAE,ANGEL,ANGLE,GALEA,GENAL,GLEAN,LAGAN,

4-letter words (24 found)

AGEN,ALAE,ALAN,ALGA,ANAL,ANGA,EGAL,ELAN,GAEN,GALA,GALE,GANE,GEAL,GEAN,GENA,GLEN,LANA,LANE,LANG,LEAN,LENG,NAGA,NALA,NEAL,

3-letter words (20 found)

AAL,AGA,AGE,ALA,ALE,ANA,ANE,EAN,ENG,GAE,GAL,GAN,GEL,GEN,LAG,LEA,LEG,NAE,NAG,NEG,

2-letter words (11 found)

AA,AE,AG,AL,AN,EA,EL,EN,LA,NA,NE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 69 words from lagena according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of lagena

lagena

Etymology

From Latin lagēna (“flagon; large flask”), from Ancient Greek λάγηνος (lágēnos, “flask, pitcher”). Alternative form of λᾰ́γῡνος (lágūnos).

Noun

lagena (plural lagenas or lagenae or lagenæ)

  1. (anatomy) The upper part of the cochlear duct.
  2. (anatomy) A similar structure, shaped like a flask, that is a hearing organ in some vertebrates.
  3. (historical) A wine-vase; an amphora.

Derived terms

  • lagenar

Anagrams

  • Angela, Galena, alnage, anlage, galena

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /laˈɡeː.na/, [ɫ̪äˈɡeːnä]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /laˈd͡ʒe.na/, [läˈd͡ʒɛːnä]

Noun

lagēna f (genitive lagēnae); first declension

  1. Alternative form of lagoena

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

  • Portuguese: laje, lájea, lajem, laja
  • → Arabic: لَجَانَة (lajāna) (super-rare)
  • → English: lagena
  • → Swedish: lägel

References

  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “lagena”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎[1] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 518
  • “lagena”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • lagena in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • lagena in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Anagrams

  • galena

Source: wiktionary.org