artemia

Questions about artemia

What does artemia mean?

artemia means "fairy shrimp; brine shrimp".

How many syllables are in artemia?

artemia has 4 syllables and divides as ar-te-mi-a 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 artemia?

Close synonyms include genus Artemia, Chirocephalus, genus Chirocephalus. 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 artemia a common word?

artemia 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.