Definitions For Sandgroper

Noun

SANDGROPER (plural SANDGROPERs) (Australia, jocular) An inhabitant of western australia. Any species of the family cylindrachetidae of subterranean insects, found in Australia, New Guinea and Argentina.

Etymology

From {{af, en, sand, groper}}. The sense “Western Australian” may originate either as a reference to the relatively large proportion of desert in the state or to gold mining during the rushes of the 19th Century.

Is Sandgroper a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends NO
Scrabble US NO
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
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Scrabble
14
Words with Friends
17

The word Sandgroper is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends

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