anguilliformes

Questions about anguilliformes

What does anguilliformes mean?

anguilliformes means "elongate fishes with pelvic fins and girdle absent or reduced".

How many syllables are in anguilliformes?

anguilliformes has 5 syllables and divides as an-guil-li-for-mes 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 anguilliformes?

Close synonyms include order Anguilliformes, order Apodes. 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 anguilliformes a common word?

anguilliformes 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.