alepisaurus

Questions about alepisaurus

What does alepisaurus mean?

alepisaurus means "slender scaleless predaceous tropical deep-sea fishes".

How many syllables are in alepisaurus?

alepisaurus has 5 syllables and divides as a-le-pi-sau-rus 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 alepisaurus?

Close synonyms include genus Alepisaurus. 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 alepisaurus a common word?

alepisaurus 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.