Morpheme
Quark
Type
free base
Denotation
subatomic particles that carry a fractional electric charge
Etymology
1963 arbitrary coinage by American physicist Murray Gell-Mann
Evidence
antiquark, antisquark, biquark, cryptoquark, diquark, diquarkonium, heptaquark, hexaquark, hyperquark, interquark, leptoquark, monoquark, multiquark, orthoquarkonium, paraquarkonium, pentaquark, polyquark, prequark, quark, quarkless, quarkonia, quarkonic, quarkonium, quarks, sexaquark, squark, squarkonium, subquark, techniquark, tetraquark, triquark
