anhinga

Questions about anhinga

What does anhinga mean?

anhinga means "fish-eating bird of warm inland waters having a long flexible neck and slender sharp-pointed bill".

How many syllables are in anhinga?

anhinga has 3 syllables and divides as an-hin-ga 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 anhinga?

Close synonyms include snakebird, darter. 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 anhinga a common word?

anhinga 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.