anguillidae

Questions about anguillidae

What does anguillidae mean?

anguillidae means "eels that live in fresh water as adults but return to the sea to spawn".

How many syllables are in anguillidae?

anguillidae has 5 syllables and divides as an-gu-il-li-dae 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 anguillidae?

Close synonyms include family Anguillidae. 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 anguillidae a common word?

anguillidae 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.