altricial

1. 1.

   (of hatchlings) naked and blind and dependent on parents for food

   Antonymsprecocial

Questions about altricial

What does altricial mean?

altricial means "(of hatchlings) naked and blind and dependent on parents for food".

How many syllables are in altricial?

altricial has 4 syllables and divides as al-tri-ci-al 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 the opposite of altricial?

The recorded antonyms are precocial.

Is altricial a common word?

altricial 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.