acipenser

Questions about acipenser

What does acipenser mean?

acipenser means "type genus of the Acipenseridae: sturgeons".

How many syllables are in acipenser?

acipenser has 4 syllables and divides as a-ci-pen-ser 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 acipenser?

Close synonyms include genus Acipenser. 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 acipenser a common word?

acipenser 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.