ambulacral

1. 1.

   pertaining to the ambulacra of radial echinoderms

   zoology

Questions about ambulacral

What does ambulacral mean?

ambulacral means "pertaining to the ambulacra of radial echinoderms".

How many syllables are in ambulacral?

ambulacral has 4 syllables and divides as am-bu-la-cral 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.

Is ambulacral a common word?

ambulacral 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.