acanthocephalan

Questions about acanthocephalan

What does acanthocephalan mean?

acanthocephalan means "any of various worms living parasitically in intestines of vertebrates having a retractile proboscis covered with many hooked spines".

How many syllables are in acanthocephalan?

acanthocephalan has 6 syllables and divides as a-can-tho-ce-pha-lan under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for acanthocephalan?

Close synonyms include spiny-headed worm. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is acanthocephalan a common word?

acanthocephalan is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.