ankus

1. 1.

   an elephant goad with a sharp spike and a hook

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Other forms of ankus

plural

ankuses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ankus

What does ankus mean?

ankus means "an elephant goad with a sharp spike and a hook".

How many syllables are in ankus?

ankus has 2 syllables: an-kus. The stress falls on "an".

Is ankus a common word?

ankus 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.