balaena

Questions about balaena

What does balaena mean?

balaena means "type genus of the Balaenidae: Greenland whales".

How many syllables are in balaena?

balaena has 4 syllables and divides as ba-la-e-na 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 balaena?

Close synonyms include genus Balaena. 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 balaena a common word?

balaena is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.