alcyonacea

Questions about alcyonacea

What does alcyonacea mean?

alcyonacea means "comprising the soft corals".

How many syllables are in alcyonacea?

alcyonacea has 5 syllables and divides as al-cy-o-na-cea 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 alcyonacea?

Close synonyms include suborder Alcyonacea. 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 alcyonacea a common word?

alcyonacea 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.